So I guess I'll hold off with this patch until we know that or1knd
will be a thing in the binutils port (as in: if or1knd get accepted in
binutils, I will submit this patch).

Stay tuned

On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 2:00 PM, Christian Svensson <[email protected]> wrote:
> Actually, looking at the code - it appears we have these things today:
>
> From gcc/config/or1k/or1k.opt:
>> mdelay
>> Target RejectNegative Negative(mno-delay) Var(or1k_delay_selected, 
>> OR1K_DELAY_ON)
>> Assume branches and jumps have a delay slot
>> mno-delay
>> Target RejectNegative Negative(mcompat-delay) Var(or1k_delay_selected, 
>> OR1K_DELAY_OFF)
>> Assume branches and jumps do not have a delay slot
>> mcompat-delay
>> Target RejectNegative Negative(mdelay) Var(or1k_delay_selected, 
>> OR1K_DELAY_COMPAT)
>> Assume branches and jumps have a delay slot, but fill them with nops
>
> Building for or1knd sets  OR1K_DELAY_DEFAULT=OR1K_DELAY_OFF (from
> gcc/config.gcc) which sets the default for or1k_delay_selected, which
> seems to be the variable overrideable by the flag.
> Building a gcc for or1knd would simply use mno-delay as the default,
> if I understand the code correctly.
>
> To me using the target to specify these things seems like the correct
> thing to do.
>
> On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 1:50 PM, Christian Svensson <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I guess so. Aarch64 has aarch64_be IIRC. In that case it would be
>> or1k_le and or1knd_le.
>>
>> or1knd has a non-trivial presence in our code base, and it changes a
>> quite fundamental assumption of the or1k architecture.
>> Running or1knd code on or1k (or the other way around) would certainly
>> produce all kinds of weird results, I'm not sure it's something you
>> would like to tweak with a flag. Possibly we could add a flag to make
>> the code generated usable for both by always putting nop where the
>> delay slots would be.
>>
>> On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 1:38 PM, Jeremy Bennett
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> On 09/03/14 10:19, Christian Svensson wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> nd in or1knd is stands for No Delay. It's or1k but with no delay slot.
>>>
>>> Hi Christian,
>>>
>>> I do rather wonder if this justifies having a different architecture
>>> name. I would expect it to be an option in the tool chain (-mno-delay
>>> for example).
>>>
>>> The usual case where you have variants in the architecture name is for
>>> endianness. For example arc (little-endian) and arceb (bit-endian). What
>>> do we do about the little-endian variants of OR1K. Do we have or1kndel
>>> and or1kel?
>>>
>>>
>>> Jeremy
>>>
>>>> On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 9:49 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven <[email protected]> 
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 2:56 PM, Christian Svensson <[email protected]> 
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> Since binutils contains code that targets or1knd, I'm going to submit
>>>>>
>>>>> Pardon my ignorance, but what's the difference between or1k and or1knd?
>>>>> I tried Google, but didn't become wiser.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks!
>>>>>
>>>>> Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
>>>>>
>>>>>                         Geert
>>>>>
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