On Sun, 16 Jul 2017 13:15:59 +0100, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> On 2017/07/16 13:35, Karel Gardas wrote:
> > On Sun, Jul 16, 2017 at 11:50 AM, Stuart Henderson <s...@spacehopper.org> 
> > wrote:
> > > On 2017/07/15 16:37, Pascal Stumpf wrote:
> > >> This is a port of the latest version of GAS from GNU binutils, at the
> > >> moment for the sole purpose of providing an assembler for the upcoming
> > >> GCC 7 port on Aarch64.
> > >>
> > >> ok?
> > >
> > > Is this needed when we have gas in arm-none-eabi-binutils? (kettenis has
> > > an update pending if this just needs a newer version).
> > 
> > I think so, since arm-none-eabi is probably just for AArch32 and also
> 
> It's not just for aarch32, there's an aarch64 flavour.
> 
> > specifically bare metal development, while what Pascal Stumpf provides
> > is gas for aarch64-openbsd platform. IIRC binutils are always compiled
> > for specific ABI and you can't simply retarget based on some command
> > line options (except in very specific cases on specific variant of one
> > platform).
> > 
> 
> On 2017/07/16 14:07, Pascal Stumpf wrote:
> > Hmm, I think I'd consider that abuse of a port that was originally
> > intended for cross-development, not everyday consumption by a "regular"
> > toolchain.
> 
> Fair enough.. I'm just trying to keep a lid on the number of different
> binutils-based ports that we have.
> 
> >             Also, we'll need this port anyway as soon as other
> > architectures switch to clang.
> 
> Better to remove the ONLY_FOR_ARCHS then (also we won't notice if it's
> broken unless it's enabled for an arch which we routinely build packages
> for, aarch64 isn't stable enough for that yet)
> 

Okay, but then the info page conflicts with base.  Do we not care or
rename everything to "eas"/"egas"?

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