Hello Bill,
On Thu, 20 Nov 2014 11:34:45 -0500, Bill Pringlemeir bpringlemeir@nbsps.com wrote:
Originally Daniel Gutson used '-mauto-it' and then it was converted to '-mimplicit-it'.
Ok, so I was right in my gut(son)[1] feeling that -mauto-it was a predecessor of -mimplicit-it -- and actually only in the first iteration(s) of the patch that would have introduced it.
I am not sure if '-mauto-it' exists in the wild. I have never heard of that option before seeing this email thread. Also my assembler says,
Assembler messages: Error: unrecognized option -mauto-it
I have built with the most recent binutils, gcc4.9.1 using crosstool-ng. Maybe only some non-mainline tools picked up this '-mauto-it' patch. I don't think it hurts to support '-mauto-it', but an assembler test should be done to see if it accepts the option.
I've gone through the binutils git tree, and -mauto-it is mentioned only in a patch that fixes the gas /docs/ which erroneously mentioned -mauto-it where it should have mentioned -mimplicit-it.
Hence, I think we should not test for -mauto-it at all, and not mention it even.
Stefan, can you resubmit without the -mauto-it part, and renaming AFLAGS_AUTOIT into AFLAGS_IMPLICIT_IT?
hth, Bill Pringlemeir.
Amicalement,