[PATCH] Relax MIPS j/jal out-of-range check

Daniel Jacobowitz drow@false.org
Tue May 9 15:04:00 GMT 2006


On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 03:16:37PM +0100, Thiemo Seufer wrote:
> Hello All,
> 
> I applied the appended patch. It relaxes the range checking for j and
> jal addresses to a warning, since there are a few cases where the
> effect of an out of range jump can be the intended result.

Why?  Especially bearing in mind that we're in the assembler here. 
This doesn't make sense to me.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery



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