Re: [RFC PATCH 7/8] powerpc/purgatory: drop .machine specifier

Excerpts from Segher Boessenkool's message of February 26, 2021 1:58 am:

On Thu, Feb 25, 2021 at 02:10:05PM +1100, Daniel Axtens wrote:

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It's ignored by future versions of llvm's integrated assembler (by not -11).
I'm not sure what it does for us in gas.

It enables all insns that exist on 620 (the first 64-bit PowerPC CPU).

Same question for this, why do we have it at all?

Thanks,
Nick