From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: linux@arm.linux.org.uk (Russell King - ARM Linux) Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 22:02:23 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] ARM: Always generate the IT instruction when compiling for Thumb-2 In-Reply-To: <20100126101424.14567.70480.stgit@pc1117.cambridge.arm.com> References: <20100126101424.14567.70480.stgit@pc1117.cambridge.arm.com> Message-ID: <20100127220223.GC29665@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 10:14:24AM +0000, Catalin Marinas wrote: > Current behaviour is to generate the IT instruction only for Thumb-2 > code. However, the kernel helpers in entry-armv.S are compiled to ARM in > a unified syntax file (if THUMB2_KERNEL). Recent compilers warn about > missing IT instruction in unified assembly syntax files. The patch > changes the "-mimplicit-it" gas option to "always". Any downsides to this change? Any assemblers not accepting "always" instead of "thumb" ?