MIPS gas relaxation still doesn't work
Maciej W. Rozycki
macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl
Wed Oct 16 07:32:00 GMT 2002
On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, Paul Koning wrote:
> Daniel> No, I mean the problem that Maciej raised: how can we even
> Daniel> pretend to know their length? They're a black box; we don't
> Daniel> really want to assume that long jumps are necessary over one,
> Daniel> but we don't know how big they are.
>
> If you write them with nomacro in effect, you can... Doesn't gcc use
> the rule that the length of an asm is the length attribute defined in
> the md file, multiplied by the number of statements in the asm string?
Except that a programmer may force ".set macro" if he needs it.
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