the linaro toolchain and older arm versions

[Michael Hope]

On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 10:44 AM, John Rigby <john.rigby at linaro.org> wrote:
> I believe that the libgcc.a in our toolchain contains Thumb-2 code.  I
> verified this by doing objdump on libgcc.a and I see combinations of
> 16 and 32 bit instructions.  So does that mean that the toolchain is
> only usable for ARM versions that support Thumb-2?

Our focus is Thumb-2 on Cortex-A processors.  We try to 'do no harm',
so Linaro GCC should be as good as the FSF GCC on older ARM
architectures or non-ARM architectures such as i686 and x86_64.

The included libgcc is compiled for processors with Thumb-2 and
VFPv3-D16.  I'm afraid I have no plans for other variants at the
moment, but you might want to talk with Marcin and Wookey about this.

-- Michael