RX: 4.5 branch: Fix alignment and addressing issues.
Nick Clifton
nickc@redhat.com
Fri Mar 18 08:22:00 GMT 2011
Hi Richard,
> What is length used for in the rx port? I don't see any branch shortening
> going on here; out of range branches are completely handled by the assembler.
>
> You might be better off simply deleting the length attribute, so that the
> compiler skips the bulk of the shorten_branches pass.
Darn - I feel like a complete idiot! You are right of course - the
length attribute is not used at all. Adding the attribute was just
habitual, I never thought to check to see if it was really needed.
I'll make a patch to remove the lengths and check it in shortly.
Cheers
Nick
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