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Currently, the Thumb support on ARM has three related Config.in
options, which are not trivial for users to understand, and are in
fact not needed:
- The USE_BX option is not needed: knowing whether BX is available or
not is easy. If you have an ARM > v4 or ARMv4T, then BX is
available, otherwise it's not. This is the logic used in glibc.
- The USE_LDREXSTREX option is not needed: whenever Thumb2 is
available, ldrex/strex are available, so we can simply rely on
__thumb2__ to determine whether ldrex/strex should be used, without
requiring a Config.in option.
- Once USE_BX and USE_LDREXSTREX are removed, the only thing left
that COMPILE_IN_THUMB does is to set -mthumb. This makes the option
unnecessary, as on ARM at least, the user is already supposed to
pass -march=<foo> or other compiler options tuning the library for
a specific ARM variant. There is no reason to do otherwise for
Thumb, which allows to get rid of the COMPILE_IN_THUMB option.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
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