assert (! "unexpected dynamic reloc type");

Ulrich Drepper drepper@cygnus.com
Fri Jul 16 16:52:00 GMT 1999


Roland McGrath <roland@frob.com> writes:

> Say what??  This is code that is never even reached unless there is a fatal
> problem.  

You have to look how gcc generates code.  Since gcc so far does not use
block reordering, code for ifs are generated like this:

	cmp
	jump if not to label

	code for if

label:

Therefore a larger `if code' is polluting the icache significantly.

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