On 07/07/11 16:18, Richard Sandiford wrote: > Richard Earnshaw <rearn...@arm.com> writes: >> On 29/06/11 12:28, Richard Sandiford wrote: >>> ARM has an option called -mwords-little-endian that provides big-endian >>> compatibility with pre-2.8 compilers. When I asked Richard about it, >>> he seemed to think it had outlived its usefulness, so this patch >>> deprecates it. We can then remove it once 4.7 is out. >>> >>> Tested on arm-linux-gnueabi. OK to install? If so, I'll do a patch >>> for the web page as well. >>> >> >> Please also update the in-line help text in arm.opt. OK with that change. > > Thanks. I've attached the patch I applied below. > > How's this for the docs change? > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Index: htdocs/gcc-4.7/changes.html > =================================================================== > RCS file: /cvs/gcc/wwwdocs/htdocs/gcc-4.7/changes.html,v > retrieving revision 1.20 > diff -u -r1.20 changes.html > --- htdocs/gcc-4.7/changes.html 6 Jul 2011 23:37:11 -0000 1.20 > +++ htdocs/gcc-4.7/changes.html 7 Jul 2011 15:17:03 -0000 > @@ -43,6 +43,9 @@ > only intended as a migration aid from SunOS 4 to SunOS 5. The > <code>-compat-bsd</code> compiler option is not recognized any > longer.</li> > + > + <li>The ARM port's <code>-mwords-little-endian</code> option has > + been deprecated. It will be removed in a future release.</li> > </ul> >
Looks fine to me, but please allow 24 hours for the web maintainers to comment if they wish. R.