> On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, Richard Earnshaw wrote:
> 
> > This is for an Acorn based machine, right?
> >
> > If so, then the problem you are seeing is that the Acorn buses, don't
> > support the ldrh instruction (they were designed before that instruction
> > was added to the cpu artchitecture).
> >
> > The solution is to use -mcpu=arm7m -mtune=strongarm.
> >
> 
> 	Just to confirm - that is more appropriate than mcpu=armv4?
> 

Yes; -mcpu=armv4 will produce code that can run incorrectly on Acorn 
machines since the bus cannot handle half-word operations.  (This includes 
machines fitted with Kinetic cards -- since even these need to access the 
system bus at times).

R.