On Fri, 20 Jul 2001, Ben Harris wrote:

: > What else is required?
:
: MASK_RETURN_ADDR needs to be changed to generate code to check what mode
: the CPU is in at run-time and pick the correct mask appropriately.
: sys/arch/arm/include/profile.h demonstrates how to do this, but it needs
: to be converted to a form GCC can understand.

The mask is needed when gcc is *compiling* code, so how would this be done
at run-time?  (Generation of code that does it on every return insn?  Eek,
that sounds like a significant overhead added to function calls....)  Note
I'm reading from your definition of "run-time" here that you are implying
a program's run-time, not gcc's.

If, instead, you're talking about the "run-time" of gcc itself, where gcc is
in the middle of compiling code, it should determine nothing about the host
CPU.  It must have fixed defaults for a given target, and you must use
switches to change codegen behavior.

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