On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 08:55:34PM +0100, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > > % mips-linux-gnu-gcc --version > > mips-linux-gnu-gcc (Debian 5.2.1-16) 5.2.1 20150903 > > Copyright (C) 2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc. > > > > How about temporarily disable that error, until we upgrade to a new > > gcc version which supports the -mcompact-branches option? > > I don't think it makes sense as the compiler won't support MIPSr6 code > anyway, so first it'll bail out on `-march=mips32r6', and if we go even > further and disable that too, then GAS will probably break somewhere on > inline asm and GCC will produce code which does not make sense otherwise.
GCC 5.2.0 claims to support mips32r6 and mips64r6. It's just the option -mcompact-branches which seem to have been added later only. Ralf
