RE: Macro expansion on MIPS

[<Paul_Koning at Dell dot com>]

Have you considered O64?  It's like O32 except with 64 bit registers and 64-bit operations.  It gives you much of the benefits you'd get from N32 with a lot less effort.  We've used it for years with excellent results.

	paul

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From: binutils-owner@sourceware.org [mailto:binutils-owner@sourceware.org] On Behalf Of Smets, Jan (Jan)
Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2011 7:33 PM
To: binutils@sourceware.org
Subject: Macro expansion on MIPS

Hi

Is there a way to disable macro expansion on MIPS? More specific the replacement of 64bit instructions into two 32bit ones.

I'm using the O32 ABI, and I have code that uses some (inline) assembly with 64bit instructions. We can not easily switch to N32. (Long-term project)

For example,  sd $a0, 0($sp)  gets replaced by  sw a0,0(sp)  +  sw a1,4(sp).

The assembler only generates a warning when the maco expands in a branch delay slot. When  .set noreorder + .set nomacro are used, the assembler prints a warnings for every 'replacement'. 

My code base is -very- large, so I can not easily add 'set .mips3' to every assembly block there is. Is there an easy way to find all places where this expansion is happening, ie, turn on 'nomacro'.

Or, is there something wrong with my new toolchain? (I'm trying to migrate from gcc34/binutils2.16.1 to gcc46/binutils2.21.52) Are there any other options I missed ? 

Thanks.
  
 - Jan