Subject: Re: Getting rid of sh5 support in sh3 binutils and gdb?
To: None <tech-toolchain@NetBSD.org>
From: Valeriy E. Ushakov <uwe@ptc.spbu.ru>
List: tech-toolchain
Date: 11/25/2006 01:02:16
On Fri, Nov 24, 2006 at 06:52:06 +0300, Valeriy E. Ushakov wrote:

> Attached patch teaches gdb to not include sh5 support for sh3 targets.
> I don't know why toolchain people made the decision to include sh5
> support by default, i don't think this is usually the case for either
> sparc (vs sparc64), i386 (vs amd64), ppc (vs ppc64) - where 64 bit
> variant needs to be requested explicitely.
[...]
> I wonder if we should also apply relevant parts to binutils as well.

BTW, gas configured for sh- (or sh* with endian suffixes) does NOT
support sh5.

SY, Uwe
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