MIPS gas relaxation still doesn't work

H. J. Lu hjl@lucon.org
Mon Oct 14 13:23:00 GMT 2002


On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 05:20:55PM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> On Oct 14, 2002, "H. J. Lu" <hjl@lucon.org> wrote:
> 
> > If gcc just emits
> 
> > 	bne     $2,$0,$L7493
> > 	j       $L2
> 
> IIRC, that's exactly what GCC will emit if you don't tell it to try to
> fill delay slots.  If it tries to fill delay slots and fails, I doubt
> the assembler is going to succeed at that.

Is that a way to tell gcc not to fill the delay slots with nop? If gcc
has nothing else to fill, do nothing and let gas do its thing.


H.J.



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