PATCH: Support more than 2 relaxation passes

James E Wilson wilson@specifix.com
Wed Mar 8 20:51:00 GMT 2006


On Wed, 2006-03-08 at 12:48, James E Wilson wrote:
> So there is no reason for more than 2 relaxation passes for the IA-64
> linker, and all other linkers only need 1 relaxation pass.

Oops, I was too hasty.  It is possible that there might be multiple
iterations within a single relaxation pass.  I didn't check that. 
However, IA-64 needs two distinct and different relaxation passes, for
doing two different kinds of relaxation which can not be done at the
same time.
-- 
Jim Wilson, GNU Tools Support, http://www.specifix.com



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