gcc, arm, and thumbs mode

[Andrew Haley]

On 5/30/22 06:57, Thomas Stüfe wrote:
> For my specific problem, I can and probably should use .function. But my
> question was more general, should we leave the decision whether to use
> thumb or arm up to the toolchain. For two reasons, one is executable size -
> I assume using thumb has certain advantages, executables are smaller and
> you can fit more into the instruction cache, and second, because errors
> like mine are probably not that uncommon and it makes me nervous that we
> only caught it because someone happened to build on his Raspi.

Indeed! I'm surprised the problem doesn't come up in other places too.

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