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Re: A very "strange" bug in gcc 2.96
- To: Mike Stump <mrs at windriver dot com>
- Subject: Re: A very "strange" bug in gcc 2.96
- From: Richard Henderson <rth at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 11:57:09 -0700
- Cc: drepper at cygnus dot com, ian at zembu dot com, binutils at sourceware dot cygnus dot com, egcs at egcs dot cygnus dot com, hjl at lucon dot org, mark at codesourcery dot com
- References: <200005221742.KAA19115@kankakee.wrs.com>
On Mon, May 22, 2000 at 10:42:46AM -0700, Mike Stump wrote:
> Given this description, I think the default
> should be off for targets that can only have fewer reloc bits than the
> instruction it is replacing (if the number is sufficiently small).
Um, the *default* is off. Period. One has to add stuff to the
machine description before tail calls happen *at all*. That stuff
includes the answer to the question "can I tail call to this function".
r~