Re: [avr-gcc-list] Patch avrtest: add support for avr6

[Tristan Gingold]

On May 26, 2008, at 4:00 PM, Weddington, Eric wrote:
> If a flag is added, I would prefer that we keep the flag naming
> consistent between all the tools when possible. AVR GCC uses the flag
> -mmcu=<device>, where <device> can be a named AVR device in  
> lowercase or
> "architecture" like "avr6".
>
> Upon review, I'd be ok with '-m arch' too.

Why not -mmcu=<dev> or -m arch.
I don't think we should support AVR devices as we only support cores,  
not IOs.

> I think that it would be good to add this switch as it would help with
> testing different devices/architectures in the future. These  
> differenct
> architectures typically select different instruction sets. It would be
> good to know if a specific architecture is broken wrt the gcc  
> regression
> tests.

Ok.
Which architecture should we support ?
avr2/25/3/31/35/4/5/51/6 ?

Tristan.