On 24/02/16 13:59, Richard Earnshaw (lists) wrote: > After discussion with the ARM port maintainers we have decided that now > is probably the right time to deprecate support for versions of the ARM > Architecture prior to ARMv4t. This will allow us to clean up some of > the code base going forwards by being able to assume: > - Presence of half-word data accesses > - Presence of Thumb and therefore of interworking instructions. > > This patch records the status change in the GCC-6 release notes. > > I propose to commit this patch later this week. >
Now done. R. > R. > > > deprecate.patch > > > Index: htdocs/gcc-6/changes.html > =================================================================== > RCS file: /cvs/gcc/wwwdocs/htdocs/gcc-6/changes.html,v > retrieving revision 1.61 > diff -u -r1.61 changes.html > --- htdocs/gcc-6/changes.html 19 Feb 2016 05:00:54 -0000 1.61 > +++ htdocs/gcc-6/changes.html 19 Feb 2016 14:47:31 -0000 > @@ -340,7 +340,14 @@ > <h3 id="arm">ARM</h3> > <ul> > <li> > - The arm port now supports target attributes and pragmas. Please > + 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. > + </li> > + <li> > + The ARM port now supports target attributes and pragmas. Please > refer to the <a > href="https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/ARM-Function-Attributes.html#ARM-Function-Attributes";> > documentation</a> for details of available attributes and > pragmas as well as usage instructions. >
