MIPS assembler branch relaxations

[Richard Henderson]

On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 02:25:31AM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> Ok, I'm now convinced not doing such relaxations under certain
> conditions is the way to go.  But what are the exact conditions?
> nomacro (as suggested), noat (to avoid clobbering $at in the expanded
> sequences) and no gp (to avoid depending on uninitialized values)?

Dunno what current behaviour is like for the mips assembler,
but for the alpha assembler the behaviour would be that only
nomacro would prevent the expansion, but if noat is present
you get an assembler error if it's needed.


r~