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Re: MIPS branch out of range
- To: mark at codesourcery dot com
- Subject: Re: MIPS branch out of range
- From: Jeffrey A Law <law at upchuck dot cygnus dot com>
- Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 20:40:58 -0600
- cc: wilson at cygnus dot com, egcs-bugs at egcs dot cygnus dot com
- Reply-To: law at cygnus dot com
In message <19990521180110I.mitchell@codesourcery.com>you write:
> >>>>> "Jim" == Jim Wilson <wilson@cygnus.com> writes:
>
> Thanks for your continued explanations.
>
> Jim> The MIPS port does have some instruction lengths defined
> Jim> already, but some of them are probably wrong, and they are
> Jim> not used for anything. There is also the problem that the
> Jim> MIPS lengths are in instructions when they should be in
> Jim> bytes.
>
> It looks like SPARC and PA also use instructions. Is it really bytes
> that we want? Are those ports "wrong"?
Huh? The PA port was changed to use bytes years ago. What pattern(s) are
using instructions for the length computation?
jeff