PATCH: Turn mips relaxation if appropriate (Re: MIPS gas relaxation still doesn't work)

Alexandre Oliva aoliva@redhat.com
Mon Oct 14 10:56:00 GMT 2002


On Oct 14, 2002, "H. J. Lu" <hjl@lucon.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 02:45:01PM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
>> 
>> >> longbranch1.C passed because gcc emitted branches that didn't exceed
>> >> the maximum lengths.
>> 
>> > Please double check. You don't need an IRIX machine to do that.

> Can you tell if gcc generates the long branches by looking at the
> assembly output?

No, because I don't really know how long each macro expands to.  Also,
have you ever considered that it's possible that the IRIX tools expand
macros differently from GNU as?

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