On Tue, 21 Aug 2018 15:38:39 +1000
Anton Blanchard wrote:
> Hi Michael,
>
> > This breaks GCC 4.6.3 at least, which we still support:
> >
> > Assembler messages:
> > Error: invalid switch -mpower8
> > Error: unrecognized option -mpower8
> > ../scripts/mod/empty.c:1:0: fatal error:
Hi Michael,
> This breaks GCC 4.6.3 at least, which we still support:
>
> Assembler messages:
> Error: invalid switch -mpower8
> Error: unrecognized option -mpower8
> ../scripts/mod/empty.c:1:0: fatal error: error closing -: Broken
> pipe
Yuck. We have POWER8 instructions in our
Anton Blanchard writes:
> From: Anton Blanchard
>
> Commit 15a3204d24a3 ("powerpc/64s: Set assembler machine type to POWER4")
> passes -mpower4 to the assembler. We have more recent instructions in our
> assembly files, but gas permits them. The clang/llvm integrated assembler
> is more strict,
From: Anton Blanchard
Commit 15a3204d24a3 ("powerpc/64s: Set assembler machine type to POWER4")
passes -mpower4 to the assembler. We have more recent instructions in our
assembly files, but gas permits them. The clang/llvm integrated assembler
is more strict, and we get a build failure.
Fix
