Hi Kyrill,
>
> Hi Tamar,
>
> On 16/01/18 16:56, Tamar Christina wrote:
> > Th 01/16/2018 16:36, James Greenhalgh wrote:
> >> On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 02:21:30PM +0000, Tamar Christina wrote:
> >>> Hi Kyrill,
> >>>
> >>>> xgene1 was added a few releases ago, better to use one of the new
> additions from the above list.
> >>>> For example -mtune=cortex-r52.
> >>> Thanks, I have updated the patch. I'll wait for an ok from an AArch64
> maintainer and a Docs maintainer.
> >> OK. But you have the same issue in the AArch64 part.
> > Thanks, I've updated the patch, I'll wait for a bit for a doc reviewer
> > if I don't hear anything I'll assume the patch is OK.
>
> Gerald has confirmed a few times in the past that port maintainers can
> approve target-specific changes to the web pages, and there are words to
> that effect at:
> https://gcc.gnu.org/svnwrite.html .
> So I'd recommend you commit your patch once you've got approval for
> aarch64 and arm.
> Unless there's some specific part of the patch you'd like the docs maintainer
> to give you feedback on...
Ah, thanks! I'll commit the patch then.
> Thanks again for working on this.
> Kyrill
>
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Tamar
> >> James
> >>
> >>> Index: htdocs/gcc-8/changes.html
> >>>
> ==========================================================
> =========
> >>> RCS file: /cvs/gcc/wwwdocs/htdocs/gcc-8/changes.html,v
> >>> retrieving revision 1.26
> >>> diff -u -r1.26 changes.html
> >>> --- htdocs/gcc-8/changes.html 11 Jan 2018 09:31:53 -0000 1.26
> >>> +++ htdocs/gcc-8/changes.html 16 Jan 2018 14:12:57 -0000
> >>> @@ -147,7 +147,51 @@
> >>>
> >>> <h3 id="aarch64">AArch64</h3>
> >>> <ul>
> >>> - <li></li>
> >>> + <li>
> >>> + The Armv8.4-A architecture is now supported. It can be used by
> >>> + specifying the <code>-march=armv8.4-a</code> option.
> >>> + </li>
> >>> + <li>
> >>> + The Dot Product instructions are now supported as an optional
> extension to the
> >>> + Armv8.2-A architecture and newer and are mandatory on Armv8.4-A.
> The extension can be used by
> >>> + specifying the <code>+dotprod</code> architecture extension. E.g.
> <code>-march=armv8.2-a+dotprod</code>.
> >>> + </li>
> >>> + <li>
> >>> + The Armv8-A <code>+crypto</code> extension has now been split
> into two extensions for finer grained control:
> >>> + <ul>
> >>> + <li><code>+aes</code> which contains the Armv8-A AES
> crytographic instructions.</li>
> >>> + <li><code>+sha2</code> which contains the Armv8-A SHA2 and
> SHA1 cryptographic instructions.</li>
> >>> + </ul>
> >>> + Using <code>+crypto<code> will now enable these two extensions.
> >>> + </li>
> >>> + <li>
> >>> + New Armv8.4-A FP16 Floating Point Multiplication Variant instructions
> have been added. These instructions are
> >>> + mandatory in Armv8.4-A but available as an optional extension to
> Armv8.2-A and Armv8.3-A. The new extension
> >>> + can be used by specifying the <code>+fp16fml</code> architectural
> extension on Armv8.2-A and Armv8.3-A. On Armv8.4-A
> >>> + the instructions can be enabled by specifying <code>+fp16</code>.
> >>> + </li>
> >>> + <li>
> >>> + New cryptographic instructions have been added as optional
> extensions to Armv8.2-A and newer. These instructions can
> >>> + be enabled with:
> >>> + <ul>
> >>> + <li><code>+sha3</code> New SHA3 and SHA2 instructions from
> Armv8.4-A. This implies <code>+sha2</code>.
> >>> + <li><code>+sm4</code> New SM3 and SM4 instructions from
> Armv8.4-A.
> >>> + </ul>
> >>> + </li>
> >>> + <li>
> >>> + Support has been added for the following processors
> >>> + (GCC identifiers in parentheses):
> >>> + <ul>
> >>> + <li>Arm Cortex-A75 (<code>cortex-a75</code>).</li>
> >>> + <li>Arm Cortex-A55 (<code>cortex-a55</code>).</li>
> >>> + <li>Arm Cortex-A55/Cortex-A75 DynamIQ big.LITTLE (<code>cortex-
> a75.cortex-a55</code>).</li>
> >>> + </ul>
> >>> + The GCC identifiers can be used
> >>> + as arguments to the <code>-mcpu</code> or <code>-
> mtune</code> options,
> >>> + for example: <code>-mcpu=cortex-a75</code> or
> >>> + <code>-mtune=thunderx2t99p1</code> or as arguments to the
> equivalent target
> >>> + attributes and pragmas.
> >>> + </li>
> >>> </ul>
> >>>
> >>> <h3 id="arm">ARM</h3>
> >>> @@ -169,14 +213,58 @@
> >>> removed in a future release.
> >>> </li>
> >>> <li>
> >>> - The default link behavior for ARMv6 and ARMv7-R targets has been
> >>> + The default link behavior for Armv6 and Armv7-R targets has
> >>> + been
> >>> changed to produce BE8 format when generating big-endian images.
> A new
> >>> flag <code>-mbe32</code> can be used to force the linker to
> produce
> >>> legacy BE32 format images. There is no change of behavior for
> >>> - ARMv6-m and other ARMv7 or later targets: these already defaulted
> >>> + Armv6-M and other Armv7 or later targets: these already
> >>> + defaulted
> >>> to BE8 format. This change brings GCC into alignment with other
> >>> compilers for the ARM architecture.
> >>> </li>
> >>> + <li>
> >>> + The Armv8-R architecture is now supported. It can be used by
> specifying the
> >>> + <code>-march=armv8-r</code> option.
> >>> + </li>
> >>> + <li>
> >>> + The Armv8.3-A architecture is now supported. It can be used by
> >>> + specifying the <code>-march=armv8.3-a</code> option.
> >>> + </li>
> >>> + <li>
> >>> + The Armv8.4-A architecture is now supported. It can be used by
> >>> + specifying the <code>-march=armv8.4-a</code> option.
> >>> + </li>
> >>> + <li>
> >>> + The Dot Product instructions are now supported as an optional
> extension to the
> >>> + Armv8.2-A architecture and newer and are mandatory on Armv8.4-A.
> The extension can be used by
> >>> + specifying the <code>+dotprod</code> architecture extension. E.g.
> <code>-march=armv8.2-a+dotprod</code>.
> >>> + </li>
> >>> +
> >>> + <li>
> >>> + Support for setting extensions and architectures using the GCC target
> pragma and attribute has been added.
> >>> + It can be used by specifying <code>#pragma GCC target
> ("arch=...")</code>, <code>#pragma GCC target ("+extension")</code>,
> >>> + <code>__attribute__((target("arch=...")))</code> or
> <code>__attribute__((target("+extension")))</code>.
> >>> + </li>
> >>> + <li>
> >>> + New Armv8.4-A FP16 Floating Point Multiplication Variant instructions
> have been added. These instructions are
> >>> + mandatory in Armv8.4-A but available as an optional extension to
> Armv8.2-A and Armv8.3-A. The new extension
> >>> + can be used by specifying the <code>+fp16fml</code> architectural
> extension on Armv8.2-A and Armv8.3-A. On Armv8.4-A
> >>> + the instructions can be enabled by specifying <code>+fp16</code>.
> >>> + </li>
> >>> + <li>
> >>> + Support has been added for the following processors
> >>> + (GCC identifiers in parentheses):
> >>> + <ul>
> >>> + <li>Arm Cortex-A75 (<code>cortex-a75</code>).</li>
> >>> + <li>Arm Cortex-A55 (<code>cortex-a55</code>).</li>
> >>> + <li>Arm Cortex-A55/Cortex-A75 DynamIQ big.LITTLE (<code>cortex-
> a75.cortex-a55</code>).</li>
> >>> + <li>Arm Cortex-R52 for Armv8-R (<code>cortex-r52</code>).</li>
> >>> + </ul>
> >>> + The GCC identifiers can be used
> >>> + as arguments to the <code>-mcpu</code> or <code>-
> mtune</code> options,
> >>> + for example: <code>-mcpu=cortex-a75</code> or
> >>> + <code>-mtune=cortex-r52</code> or as arguments to the
> equivalent target
> >>> + attributes and pragmas.
> >>> + </li>
> >>> </ul>
> >>>
> >>> <h3 id="avr">AVR</h3>
> >>>
