[PATCH] D17925: [ARM] Add Cortex-R8 to target parser and tablegen

[scott douglass via llvm-commits]

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Comment at: lib/Target/ARM/ARM.td:637
@@ +636,3 @@
+                                                         FeatureSlowFPBrcc,
+                                                         FeatureHWDivARM,
+                                                         FeatureHasSlowFPVMLx,
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t.p.northover wrote:
> rengolin wrote:
> > R6+ supports HWDIV for both ARM and Thumb.
> Good catch. In a possibly related note, what's happening with MCHammer within ARM? 
> 
> This seems like exactly the sort of issue it should have caught (an encoding that was invalid on LLVM but should have been supported).
> 
> Abandoning it is obviously fine (it was internal anyway), but I'd sort of been assuming that patches from ARM were backed by that kind of verification (which at least included 2 mostly independent implementations of the same instruction).
In this case, ARMv7r has FeatureHWDiv (to enable the Thumb DIV instructions)

[Aside]

> what's happening with MCHammer within ARM?

MC Hammer is still going, but it is based on the features, not the cpus.  It will notice if the feature doesn't correctly enable the instructions, but not if the cpu doesn't enable the feature.


http://reviews.llvm.org/D17925