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Re: PATCH: PR 834: IA64: Change br to brl for "far" branches when possible

From: Richard Henderson <rth at redhat dot com>
To: "H. J. Lu" <hjl at lucon dot org>
Cc: Jan Beulich <JBeulich at novell dot com>, binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 10:43:45 -0700
Subject: Re: PATCH: PR 834: IA64: Change br to brl for "far" branches when possible
References: <s2846807.006@emea1-mh.id2.novell.com> <20050513140251.GA24961@lucon.org> <20050513161954.GA26974@lucon.org>

On Fri, May 13, 2005 at 09:19:54AM -0700, H. J. Lu wrote:
> 	* elfxx-ia64.c (elfNN_ia64_relax_br): New.
> 	(elfNN_ia64_relax_brl): Use it.

This is ok, but I think you really shouldn't keep the nop predicate.
You claimed you didn't want to change the user's code; what do you
think you're doing here?!?  Both stances make no sense.

r~

References:
- Re: PATCH: PR 834: IA64: Change br to brl for "far" brancheswhen possible
  - From: Jan Beulich
- Re: PATCH: PR 834: IA64: Change br to brl for "far" branches when possible
  - From: H. J. Lu
- Re: PATCH: PR 834: IA64: Change br to brl for "far" branches when possible
  - From: H. J. Lu

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