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Re: Set USE_BRL in elfxx-ia64.c at run-time?
- From: law at redhat dot com
- To: Richard Henderson <rth at redhat dot com>
- Cc: Jim Wilson <wilson at tuliptree dot org>, "H. J. Lu" <hjl at lucon dot org>, binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2003 11:16:44 -0700
- Subject: Re: Set USE_BRL in elfxx-ia64.c at run-time?
- Reply-to: law at redhat dot com
In message <20030304011552 dot GQ12472 at redhat dot com>, Richard Henderson writes:
>On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 05:17:03PM -0700, law at redhat dot com wrote:
>> Cool. This was on my plate of things to look at -- presumably
>> Itanium 2 hardware implements BRL, rather than punting to an emulator.
>> Right?
>
>Correct. And, just in case anyone's forgotten, the ABI requires
>the emulator to exist, so binaries *should* still run.
Cool.
On a marginally related note, what's the status on support for CHK
targets that are more than 16M away? [ The other IA-64 item on my
list of things to investigate :-) ]
Jeff