MIPS gas relaxation still doesn't work

Richard Sandiford rsandifo@redhat.com
Mon Oct 14 09:09:00 GMT 2002


"H. J. Lu" <hjl@lucon.org> writes:
> Can gcc be be modified not to generate noreorder/nomacro for branchs if
> gas is used?

Sounds like you're suggesting gcc should leave gas to fill delay slots?

gcc is usually much better at filling delay slots than gas is.  gas just
looks at the previous instruction to see if it's suitable.  gcc can pull
pull instructions from the branch target instead.

Richard



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