MIPS gas relaxation still doesn't work

[Alexandre Oliva]

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

> On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 05:20:55PM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote:

>> 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.

See above.  You'd be just wasting time.  If you have a testcase in
which gcc tries to fill the delay slot and fails even though it could,
you've found a bug in gcc, and this bug should be fixed.  Wasting time
in the assembler trying again to do what gcc should have done is
silly.

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