New M68K target for GCC
Chris Johns
chrisj at rtems.org
Wed Jan 17 00:37:55 UTC 2007
Joel Sherrill wrote:
>
> Email Peter Barada and cc me. I see patches from him on the gcc list
> which are
> not in 4.1.1 which appear to be want you want. Google "gcc coldfire
> 528x" and
> you should get at least an ffs pattern. I am curious what has become of his
> effort. Maybe it is already on the head.
I thought the latest work is being done by Richard Sandiford. An example
of a number of patches submitted this month and maybe of interest here is:
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2007-01/msg00764.html
Is Peter still active with Coldfires ?
>
> Anyway gcc 4.1.1 already has a -m528x flag but I don't see much magic
> based on that yet.
>
I thought we have talked about this in the past when Eric was adding a
special instruction for the 5282 processor. I cannot find any references
to that discussion and cannot remember the detail.
If we start adding support for the possible Coldfire options as compiler
flags for RTEMS we would have an explosion of libraries in a multilib
build with little if any difference. Describing a device as a gcc option
for a device's on-chip functions is a mistake. GCC should only deal with
instruction set difference that the compiler uses including FPU. In the
case of a special instruction for Eric it was a specific instruction for
a specific function used in one place in RTEMS. It did not warrant a
whole extra set of libraries.
Regards
Chris
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