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Re: A question about ld relaxation.

From: "H. J. Lu" <hjl at lucon dot org>
To: Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com>
Cc: bjgnu at sunnorth dot com dot cn, binutils at sourceware dot org
Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 07:41:28 -0700
Subject: Re: A question about ld relaxation.
References: <OFCADE0568.BE54C80E-ON482572E4.000D3281-482572E4.000FAEE1@sunnorth.com.cn> <46556784.8000102@redhat.com>

On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 11:23:00AM +0100, Nick Clifton wrote:
> 
> >3, Almost all the targets shrink the instruction size during relaxation.
> >Can i enlarge the instruction? like bl32-bits relax to bl-48bits?
> 
> In theory you could do this, although I do not know of any port of the 
> GNU linker that currently supports this feature.

IA64 linker will do it. See elfNN_ia64_relax_br in elfxx-ia64.c.


H.J.

References:
- A question about ld relaxation.
  - From: bjgnu
- Re: A question about ld relaxation.
  - From: Nick Clifton

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