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Re: [RFA] [pei-386] prevent ld (auto-import) from generating broken code
On Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 03:45:09PM -0400, DJ Delorie wrote:
> The only hope is to modify gcc to not allow offsets in direct
> addressing, but that would (1) be a big performance penalty,
> and (2) probably not be accepted by the gcc folks.
(1) is probably not true -- offsets don't happen *that* often.
(2) is definitely not true, assuming the restriction is limited
to the affected targets.
r~