[fpc-devel] Blackfin support

[Jeppe Johansen]

Florian Klaempfl skrev:
>> I recently had the experience of using a TMS320C26
>> which probably has to be programmed in assembler due to the limits of
>> the instruction set. But I hear newer DSPs use instruction sets geared
>> alot more towards highlevel compilers
>>
>> Michael:
>> Cortex A8 runs ARMv7A. All the Interlocked* functions in the ARM RTL
>> already have implementations for >ARMv6 instructions(ldrex/strex) which
>> is pretty much what the architecture manual wrote as example code
>>     
>
> Yes, but the code is not selected dynamically: if one compiles for armv5
> but runs it on a armv6+, the armv6 doesn't use the new instructions.
True, but do you think anyone does that? :) Most people know what end 
hardware their programs will run on

I don't think we can have support for both in the rtl. I don't even 
think you can do that, since GNU as won't accept ARMv6 instructions if 
you assemble for ARMv5, and throw an error