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Re: Set USE_BRL in elfxx-ia64.c at run-time?


On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 05:17:03PM -0700, law at redhat dot com wrote:
> Cool.  This was on my plate of things to look at -- presumably 
> Itanium 2 hardware implements BRL, rather than punting to an emulator.
> Right?

Correct.  And, just in case anyone's forgotten, the ABI requires
the emulator to exist, so binaries *should* still run.

> I suspect most folks aren't going to care about Itanium 1 performance :-)

Well, no one who's paying anyway.  ;-)


r~


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