MIPS assembler branch relaxations

[Richard Henderson]

On Sun, Sep 15, 2002 at 01:39:27AM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> > Does it happen inside .set nomacro? [I think so - should it?  I'd
> > say not!]
> 
> I don't see why not.  It's not like we're expanding a macro.  We're
> rather doing relaxation.

Are we generating more than one instruction?  Yes.  Ergo
it's a macro.

> Does the linker refrain from doing relaxations on machine code
> generated from opcodes assembled while .set nomacro was in effect?

What linker relaxations?


r~