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Re: MIPS gas relaxation still doesn't work


On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, Paul Koning wrote:

>  Daniel> No, I mean the problem that Maciej raised: how can we even
>  Daniel> pretend to know their length?  They're a black box; we don't
>  Daniel> really want to assume that long jumps are necessary over one,
>  Daniel> but we don't know how big they are.
> 
> If you write them with nomacro in effect, you can...  Doesn't gcc use
> the rule that the length of an asm is the length attribute defined in
> the md file, multiplied by the number of statements in the asm string?

 Except that a programmer may force ".set macro" if he needs it. 

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