Hi,
Could you please let me know if there happens to be an update regarding how I
might be able to resolve it?
Thanks!
Warm regards,
Vishakha
From: Iain Sandoe
Sent: 27 September 2023 08:35
To: Lingadahally, Vishakha (2023)
Cc: GCC Fortran
Subject: [EXT] Re: gfortran: error: unrecognized argument in option
'-mcmodel=medium'
> On 27 Sep 2023, at 08:33, Iain Sandoe wrote:
>
>
>
>> On 27 Sep 2023, at 08:25, Andrew Pinski via Fortran
>> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 26, 2023 at 11:39 PM Richard Biener via Fortran
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Tue, Sep 26, 2023 at 4:44 PM Lingadahally, Vishakha (2023)
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Dear GCC Team,
>>>>
>>>> I'm running Ubuntu 22 on my Mac virtually and my gfortran version is
>>>> 11.4.0. When I try to install a certain software package, I encounter the
>>>> following error:
>>>>
>>>> gfortran: error: unrecognized argument in option '-mcmodel=medium'
>>>> gfortran: note: valid arguments to '-mcmodel=' are: large small tiny
>>>>
>>>> Is this due to attempting to run gfortran on arm64 architecture? Could you
>>>> please let me know how I could resolve the issue?
>>>
>>> You have to turn to Ubuntu here, -mcmodel=medium is certainly
>>> supported in GCC 11, maybe Ubuntu patches out
>>> the support?
>>
>> Well -mcmodel=medium is the x86_64 specific option while they are
>> trying to run on aarch64 which has a different set options.
>
>
> The current Arm64 port (aarch64 on macOS) only supports the “small” mcmodel
> “tiny” is not supported by macOS and we have not yet implemented “large”.
>
> Despite it’s name “small” should suffice as an approximate equivalent for the
> x86_64 “medium” (at least on macOS).
>
> So, either you need to change the flag depending on the architecture, or omit
> it
> (on macOS currently GCC only supports the default mcmodel).
>
> We plan to support the “large” model at some stage on Arm64 (but unlikely for
> GCC 14)
Ah, and now I see you are not running native so the comments above are not
relevant.
Iain
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