Re: [PATCH 1/3] [RESEND] ARM: pass -march=armv7-a when building NEON files with clang

[Nicolas Pitre]

On Fri, 19 Feb 2016, Arnd Bergmann wrote:

> On Thursday 18 February 2016 12:31:35 Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> > On Thu, 18 Feb 2016, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > 
> > > clang ignores the -mfpu=neon flag when building with -march=armv6:
> > > 
> > > In file included from lib/raid6/neon1.c:27:
> > > clang/3.8.0/include/arm_neon.h:28:2: error: "NEON support not enabled"
> > > 
> > > There is no real need to build the file with -march=armv6 in a
> > > multi-CPU enabled kernel, as nothing in here will ever get called
> > > on an ARMv6 CPU. Adding -march=armv7 doesn't hurt and can only
> > > improve the code quality.
> > 
> > Is this enough to override a previous -mfpu for gcc?
> 
> I did not see any build failures on gcc with this, so I assume it
> has no effect. I could move the -march=armv7-a in front of
> -mfpu=neon if you think that would be safer though.

I don't know what's safer.  That's why I'm asking.  :-)


Nicolas