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Re: Can data embed in the instruction stream ?

wuxi wrote:
> Andrew Haley wrote:
>> Some arches load constants with simple PC-relative memory reads, and
>> these
>> typically have a range of only a fe kbytes from the PC.  In large
>> functions
>> we have to insert these into the function body and jump around them. 
>> See arm_reorg in gcc/config/arm/arm.c.
>>   
> 
> emmm... but what about IA-32 ? It seems that ia32 doesn't have this
> constraint...

That's right, it doesn't.  What is our point?

Andrew.
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