Subject: Re: Possible bug in arm32 strongarm optimisations.
To: Chris Gilbert <chris@buzzbee.freeserve.co.uk>
From: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
List: tech-toolchain
Date: 10/26/2000 16:16:15
On Wed, 25 Oct 2000, Chris Gilbert wrote:

> > You have fallen into a slight trap of the RiscPC architecture. Although
> > the RiscPC has a StrongARM processor the memory interface does not
> > implement 16bit (halfword) transfers. Try the following options:
> >
> > -march=armv3m -mtune=strongarm
>
> Doh, I did go looking for docs on the strongarm flags, but there's nothing
> the gcc man page about this (perhaps that needs to be pr'd as a docs thing?).
>  I thought I was probably doing something silly somewhere, hence asking, and
> not pr'ing it.

	I've added a commented out
	'makeoptions  COPTS="-O2 -march=armv3m -mtune=strongarm"'
	to sys/arch/arm32/conf/RISCPC with a note that it is for StrongARM
	only CPUs. Will see if we can get a pullup for 1.5


                David/absolute
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