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Re: MIPS gas relaxation still doesn't work
- From: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro at ds2 dot pg dot gda dot pl>
- To: Paul Koning <pkoning at equallogic dot com>
- Cc: drow at mvista dot com, echristo at redhat dot com, wilson at redhat dot com, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 16:32:42 +0200 (MET DST)
- Subject: Re: MIPS gas relaxation still doesn't work
- Organization: Technical University of Gdansk
On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, Paul Koning wrote:
> Daniel> No, I mean the problem that Maciej raised: how can we even
> Daniel> pretend to know their length? They're a black box; we don't
> Daniel> really want to assume that long jumps are necessary over one,
> Daniel> but we don't know how big they are.
>
> If you write them with nomacro in effect, you can... Doesn't gcc use
> the rule that the length of an asm is the length attribute defined in
> the md file, multiplied by the number of statements in the asm string?
Except that a programmer may force ".set macro" if he needs it.
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