On Wed, 24 Feb 2016, Richard Earnshaw (lists) wrote:
> I propose to commit this patch later this week.

+       Support for revisions of the ARM architecture prior to ARMv4t has
+       been deprecated and will be removed in a future GCC release.
+       This affects ARM6, ARM7 (but not ARM7TDMI), ARM8, StrongARM, and
+       Faraday fa526 and fa626 devices, which do not have support for
+       the Thumb execution state.

I am wondering whether this may be confusing for those not 
intricately familiar with the older history of ARM platforms.

ARMv8 is pretty new, googling for it has 
  http://www.arm.com/products/processors/armv8-architecture.php
as first hit, for example, and the only difference versus ARM8 
is that little lower-case "v".

Gerald

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