[patch] MIPS gas problems with gcc's explicit relocs

[Thiemo Seufer]

Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
[snip]
> 	asm("dla\t%0,%1" : "=r" (result) : "m" (foo));
[snip]
> 	lui	$2,%highest(foo)
> 	daddiu	$2,$2,%higher(foo)
> 	dsll	$2,$2,16
> 	daddiu	$2,$2,%hi(foo)
> 	dsll	$2,$2,16
> #APP
> 	dla	$2,%lo(foo)($2)
> #NO_APP

IMHO this is broken in the compiler. It should either only provide the
sympol for %1, or handle the dla expansion correctly, preferably with
better optimization for superscalar processors (that is, a
lui - lui - daddiu - daddiu - dsll32 - daddu sequence).


Thiemo