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Re: ppc-linux gcc configury patch
- To: Richard Henderson <rth at cygnus dot com>
- Subject: Re: ppc-linux gcc configury patch
- From: Cort Dougan <cort at ppc dot kernel dot org>
- Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1999 12:49:47 -0600
- Cc: Franz Sirl <Franz dot Sirl-kernel at lauterbach dot com>, egcs-patches at egcs dot cygnus dot com, geoffk at ozemail dot com dot au
- References: <19990531093346.A19882@cygnus.com> <99053122114300.00734@ns1102.munich.netsurf.de> <19990531154254.A20388@cygnus.com>
I'm not willing to take a performance hit so AIX can add linux/ppc binary
support. Aren't branches of that size rare, though? Can glibc be
modified to reduce the impact?
} > ... and slow down calls to shared libs cause they are no longer loaded
} > in an area reachable by PPC's 26bit offset branch instructions :-(.
}
} That is unfortunate. Cort?