On 29 Sep 2011, at 10:34, "Nick Clifton" <ni...@redhat.com> wrote:
> Hi Guys, > > All I wanted to do was to make GCC's ARM assembler output slightly > easier to read... > > I would like to propose a patch to create a new header file in the > include/ directory. This file would contain enums describing the > attributes that be can found in SHT_GNU_ATTRIBUTES sections. The > purpose of the file is to provide a single place where these values > are defined, and to share the information between GCC, BINUTILS and > GDB. > > The patch also includes an update to readelf to make it use the > enumerated values and an example of a patch to the ARM backend of GCC > to include the attribute names in its assembler output. > > > So - what do people think ? Any objections to this idea ? > I don't think it's a good idea to have the attributes of every CPU we support in a single file. That's going to get unmaintainable very quickly. R
