From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.lib.musl.general/8680 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Szabolcs Nagy Newsgroups: gmane.linux.lib.musl.general Subject: Re: status of armhf asm with VFP instructions Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2015 02:33:13 +0200 Message-ID: <20151016003313.GZ10551@port70.net> References: <20151015223320.GW10551@port70.net> <20151015224425.GA8645@brightrain.aerifal.cx> <20151015231606.GX10551@port70.net> <20151016000056.GB8645@brightrain.aerifal.cx> Reply-To: musl@lists.openwall.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1444955610 23694 80.91.229.3 (16 Oct 2015 00:33:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2015 00:33:30 +0000 (UTC) To: musl@lists.openwall.com Original-X-From: musl-return-8692-gllmg-musl=m.gmane.org@lists.openwall.com Fri Oct 16 02:33:30 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: gllmg-musl@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from mother.openwall.net ([195.42.179.200]) by plane.gmane.org with smtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Zmsxc-00019s-4g for gllmg-musl@m.gmane.org; Fri, 16 Oct 2015 02:33:28 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 22377 invoked by uid 550); 16 Oct 2015 00:33:25 -0000 Mailing-List: contact musl-help@lists.openwall.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: Original-Received: (qmail 22350 invoked from network); 16 Oct 2015 00:33:24 -0000 Mail-Followup-To: musl@lists.openwall.com Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20151016000056.GB8645@brightrain.aerifal.cx> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.linux.lib.musl.general:8680 Archived-At: * Rich Felker [2015-10-15 20:00:56 -0400]: > On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 01:16:07AM +0200, Szabolcs Nagy wrote: > > most likely ual is the long term solution. > > > > maybe it is best to switch to ual and then write that script > > if ppl with old binutils run into issues. > > That sounds like it might be the best option. I don't like dropping > support for old stuff, but ARM really made a mess of this by making a > new gratuitously incompatible asm syntax and encouraging tools not to > support the old syntax (and particularly, not to support generating > thumb2 from it, despite the fact that there's no fundamental reason it > couldn't be done). > > BTW for other things I think we need some sort of syntax directive to > tell the assembler we'll be using the unified syntax -- is this right? > Do you know what the minimum gas version that supports this directive > is? .syntax unified (binutils supports it since 2005). and the default is divided syntax (so inline asm has to use divided syntax or ".sytax unified" ... ".syntax divided")