PPC code generation question

[Alan Modra]

On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 07:51:52AM +0000, Jan Beulich wrote:
> Is it intentional, unavoidable, or a bug that this code
> 
> .text
> _start:
> bge+ .
> bge- .-4
> 
> generates different a binary different from this
> 
> .text
> _start:
> bge+ .
> bge- .-4
> .machine  power6
> 
> While I suppose that the difference is not very significant, it still seems
> odd.

I'd say it is a bug.  Fixup processing accesses ppc_cpu (*), so gets
the value at the end of the file.  We probably ought to save the
current value of ppc_cpu in the fixup and use that.

*) md_apply_fix calls ppc_insert_operand which uses ppc_cpu.

-- 
Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM