On February 28, 2016 3:20:24 PM CST, Gerald Pfeifer <ger...@pfeifer.com> wrote: >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".
I assume this means a number of values for the various -mXXX arguments will be removed. Would it be more helpful to list those values? I have to agree with Gerald. I think this will obsolete a few older RTEMS BSPs but based on that wording, I don't know which. >Gerald --joel
