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Re: PATCH: Turn mips relaxation if appropriate (Re: MIPS gas relaxation still doesn't work)
On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 02:38:40PM -0200, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> 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
I don't think the SGI mips assembler takes ".space". At least, that
was the case when I added the testcase.
> longbranch1.C passed because gcc emitted branches that didn't exceed
> the maximum lengths.
Please double check. You don't need an IRIX machine to do that.
>
> > 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.
>
Ooops. Never mind. I was looking at the --relax option in ld.
H.J.