[patch] MIPS gas problems with gcc's explicit relocs
Thiemo Seufer
ica2_ts@csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de
Fri May 28 21:50:00 GMT 2004
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
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