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Re: PATCH: PR 834: IA64: Change br to brl for "far" branches when possible
On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 04:31:24PM -0700, James E Wilson wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-05-12 at 16:08, Richard Henderson wrote:
> > On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 03:35:58PM -0700, James E Wilson wrote:
> > > HJ has mentioned that he would like to split elfxx-ia64.c into separate
> > > elf32-ia64.c and elf64-ia64.c files.
> > To what purpose?
>
> I don't know the details. I wasn't going to worry about it until I saw
> a patch. I assume it is part of his work to try to get the ILP32 linker
> working. Perhaps HJ can comment on this.
The code is duplicated when both ELF32 and ELF64 are configured.
Also it isn't easy to debug it. You need to handle both elfxx-ia64.c
and elf64-ia64.c. But it seems to too much effort to add elf32-ia64
add elf64-ia64.c. I gave it up.
H.J.