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RE: PATCH: Support more than 2 relaxation passes

From: James E Wilson <wilson at specifix dot com>
To: Dave Korn <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>
Cc: "'H. J. Lu'" <hjl at lucon dot org>, binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2006 12:51:35 -0800
Subject: RE: PATCH: Support more than 2 relaxation passes
References: <06b901c642ee$04673480$a501a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> <1141850934.20372.77.camel@aretha.corp.specifix.com>

On Wed, 2006-03-08 at 12:48, James E Wilson wrote:
> So there is no reason for more than 2 relaxation passes for the IA-64
> linker, and all other linkers only need 1 relaxation pass.

Oops, I was too hasty.  It is possible that there might be multiple
iterations within a single relaxation pass.  I didn't check that. 
However, IA-64 needs two distinct and different relaxation passes, for
doing two different kinds of relaxation which can not be done at the
same time.
-- 
Jim Wilson, GNU Tools Support, http://www.specifix.com

References:
- RE: PATCH: Support more than 2 relaxation passes
  - From: Dave Korn
- RE: PATCH: Support more than 2 relaxation passes
  - From: James E Wilson

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