Re: gcc-as 2.5.1

[Yves Pelletier <ypell@cam.org>]

On Sat, 3 Jan 1998, Petr Stehlik wrote:

> 	Hi,
> 
> Rodolphe sent me his AS "version 2.5.1 (Falcon030)" while the last version
> available everywhere is "1.38 atariST PatchLevel 4". I wonder who did the
> port of GAS 2.5.1 to MiNT?

Keith Tomlin <tomlin@zippy.spods.dcs.kcl.ac.uk>

> Strange is that even for -m68030 it produces shorter code than
> the original gas-1.38 - looks like the new gas optimizes
> assembler?? I don't get it. Hopefully it seems to work fine,
> so I don't care. 

Yes, I noticed that, too, but gas 2.5.1 chokes badly on the
assembler files produced by the MiNT makefile *.cpp -> *.s
process.  Do you know how to solve that problem?

> 
> BTW, -m68020-40 produces as short code as -m68040 alone, so it might be a
> good idea to compile everything with -m68020-40 (it will be optimized for
> 68040 and it still will work on 68030 - if I understood the option right).
> 

Hmm.  I will keep that in mind for the next MiNTlib compile.

Yves