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Re: Uninitialized memory access in final.c


>>>>> "Jeffrey" == Jeffrey A Law <law@cygnus.com> writes:

    Jeffrey>   In message <20000919091025.B26169@cygnus.com>you write:
    >> On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 03:45:03PM +0100, Bernd Schmidt wrote:
    >> > Is it ever valid for an insn's length to be increased during
    >> > shorten_branches?  It seems to me that this would cause the >
    >> algorithm to be no longer guaranteed to terminate.
    >> 
    >> I thought we started with smallest lengths and always expanded.
    >> Otherwise you wouldn't find the minimal solution.

    Jeffrey> Nyet.  We start pessimistic and improve, at least last
    Jeffrey> time I looked at that code.

That is my recollection as well.

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