[LLVMdev] .thumb_set

[Saleem Abdulrasool]

On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 3:34 AM, Renato Golin <renato.golin at linaro.org>
wrote:

> On 15 June 2015 at 03:21, Pete Cooper <peter_cooper at apple.com> wrote:
> > I would argue that in this case it should throw exactly the same errors
> in
> > exactly the same situations as .set. Any more/less and it wouldn’t be
> > equivalent.
>
> Sigh... You are, obviously, correct.
>
> I hate when GCC/GAS documents something and does another. When you
> bring this to them all you get is "we can't change now because
> legacy".
>
> In the past, we have chosen being compatible with the docs over
> bug-for-bug, so in this case, I think we better implement .thumb_set
> as .set and add a big comment about this in the code, so that future
> bug reports can be quickly dismissed after a short investigation.
>
> Saleem, does that sound reasonable?
>

Yeah, going with the documented behavior is reasonable.


> cheers,
> --renato
>



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Saleem Abdulrasool
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