linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ARM: do not assemble iwmmxt.S with LLVM toolchain

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Date:   Fri, 10 Apr 2020 18:59:48 +0200
From:   Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To:     Jian Cai <caij2003@...il.com>
Cc:     Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>, Peter.Smith@....com,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] ARM: do not assemble iwmmxt.S with LLVM toolchain

On Thu, Apr 09, 2020 at 04:27:26PM -0700, Jian Cai wrote:
> iwmmxt.S contains XScale instructions

Dumb question....

Are these Xscale instructions? My understanding is that they are an
instruction set of their own, implementing something similar to IA-32
MMX. 

Would it be more accurate to say CLANG does not support the iwmmxt
instruction set?

	    Andrew