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Re: optimization by as
- From: Virendra Kumar Pathak <kumarvir dot pathak at gmail dot com>
- To: Andrew Bennett <Andrew dot Bennett at imgtec dot com>
- Cc: "binutils at sourceware dot org" <binutils at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2015 12:11:53 +0530
- Subject: Re: optimization by as
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Hi Andrew,
Thanks for the reply.
What other types of optimization can be handled by the assembler ?
Are they capable of re-ordering the instructions ?
For example inserting other instruction between two loads (on machine
with one load unit) to avoid pipeline stall.
Thanks.
On 6 August 2015 at 19:38, Andrew Bennett <Andrew.Bennett@imgtec.com> wrote:
>> I see -O option for MIPS target in 'man as' but no such option for
>> arm/aarch64.
>> Please give some insight on what type of optimization does this -O do.
>
> This optimisation is enabling the filling of branch delay slots, and the
> removal of unneeded nops.
>
> Regards,
>
>
>
> Andrew
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with regards,
Virendra Kumar Pathak