Re: -mcpu vs. binutils 2.13.90.0.18

[Thiemo Seufer <ica2_ts@csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de>]

Guido Guenther wrote:
> Hi,
> it seems newer binutils doen't know about -mcpu anymore. Is it correct
> to simply change:
>  -mcpu=r5000 -mips2 -Wa,--trap
> to
>  -mtune=r5000 -mips2 -Wa,--trap

On newer toolchains this will select r6000 opcodes with r5000 scheduling.

Try
   -mabi=o32 -march=r5000 -Wa,--trap
This may fail if the compiler is very old, though.

> for IP22? -mips2 conflicts with -march=r5000 since this implies -mips4.

This was fixed in very recent gcc. -mips2 should be an alias for -march=r6000
and -mips4 one for -march=r8000.


Thiemo