powerpc64-linux infrastructure 5 of 6
Alan Modra
amodra@bigpond.net.au
Wed Aug 8 16:44:00 GMT 2001
On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 10:55:37PM +0200, Torbjorn Granlund wrote:
> Geoff Keating <geoffk@geoffk.org> writes:
>
> > Put relocs in the opcode table.
>
> This seems like a bad design.
>
> It replaces an ugly chunk of ad-hoc code in tc-ppc.c.
Boils down to:
Simplified code + larger data structure
vs.
more complex code + smaller data structure.
I admit it's arguable in this case whether the simplification warrants
the extra data size. Note that at this stage we haven't actually
introduced any changes in assembler behaviour.
Alan
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