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Re: PATCH: Turn mips relaxation if appropriate (Re: MIPS gas relaxation still doesn't work)

On Oct 14, 2002, "H. J. Lu" <hjl@lucon.org> wrote:

> Please double check. If I remembered right, g++.dg/opt/longbranch1.C
> passes on IRIX 6.5 with n32 ABI.

I'm talking about the `relax.s' testcase.  I wouldn't be surprised if
longbranch1.C passed because gcc emitted branches that didn't exceed
the maximum lengths.

> It makes even less senses. The new mips optio is --relax-branch. Now
> are you saying it is not true?

I'm saying --relax-branch != the machine-independent --relax.  The
former affects only a subset of all possible relaxations.

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