MIPS gas relaxation still doesn't work
Michael Matz
matz@suse.de
Mon Oct 14 14:04:00 GMT 2002
Hi,
On 14 Oct 2002, Alexandre Oliva 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.
I think that isn't hj's point. He wanta gas to take advantage of
relaxation, and gcc is hindering that for no good reason. I admit I have
no idea of Mips, though, so I don't know if relaxation somehow is
depending on delay slot filling at all ;-)
Ciao,
Michael.
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