After the V7 patches have been processed, these patches add various tests for new features with -mcpu=future. If we don't apply the last patch of V7 (that sets the defaults for 64-bit Linux to enable both prefixed and PC-relative addressing when -mcpu=future is used), some of these patches may need to be modified to have the appropriate -mpcrel, etc. switches. I would prefer to get the default changed, but if there are reasons why we can't do that patch, I wold prefer to get these patches in ASAP.
There are 6 patches in this set. -- Michael Meissner, IBM IBM, M/S 2506R, 550 King Street, Littleton, MA 01460-6245, USA email: meiss...@linux.ibm.com, phone: +1 (978) 899-4797