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Re: MIPS patch to avoid lazy binding in la macros

From: Eric Christopher <echristo at redhat dot com>
To: Richard Sandiford <rsandifo at redhat dot com>
Cc: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at redhat dot com>, binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
Date: 22 Feb 2003 09:27:54 -0800
Subject: Re: MIPS patch to avoid lazy binding in la macros
References: <m3d6lmfpm6.fsf@localhost.localdomain><orsmugties.fsf@free.redhat.lsd.ic.unicamp.br> <wvnadgonv3t.fsf@talisman.cambridge.redhat.com>

> Hmm.  I see you're responding to my first message.  As I said
> in a follow-up, I think we should stop gcc splitting the jal
> macro in final.  Sound reasonable?
> 

That's not a bad idea.

Another one is to have rewrite produce the instruction sequence
(including relocs) that would be emitted by gas and we could go back and
leave la alone. I don't much like this, but it is an idea that would
help the assembly language programmers.

-eric

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o/~ Cry havoc... o/~

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