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Re: [mips patch rfc/rfa] get rid of coff embedded-pic support.


Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Apr 2004, Eric Christopher wrote:
> 
> > > I'd like to retain the ELF MIPS_R_PCREL16, and implement external
> > > branches with it again.
> > 
> > ? Why?

I guess this question was about the GNU ECOFF extension reloc, which
I'm not really interested in. :-)

>  Well, some people find it useful.  I wouldn't mind it, either.  The i386
> ELF even supports 8-bit external branches (yes, +127/-128), so MIPS with
> its 18-bit range doesn't even look close to insanity.

Indeed, it can save some insns in hand-coded critical paths, without
the need of lumping all of it in one file. The code has just to reside
in a +-128k range, which should be easy to achieve.


Thiemo


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