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Re: [PowerPC] -msdata=data needless use of .sbss section

From: Alan Modra <amodra at bigpond dot net dot au>
To: David Edelsohn <dje at watson dot ibm dot com>
Cc: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 08:34:23 +0930
Subject: Re: [PowerPC] -msdata=data needless use of .sbss section
References: <20051020110047.GA5746@bubble.grove.modra.org> <200510201628.j9KGScq23128@makai.watson.ibm.com>

On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 12:28:38PM -0400, David Edelsohn wrote:
> 	Why not call rs6000_elf_in_small_data_p() in the macro?

I looked at doing that, and couldn't convince myself that the size
calculated by rs6000_elf_in_small_data_p would always be the same
as that calculated by assemble_variable.  The former uses
   int_size_in_bytes (TREE_TYPE (decl))
the latter,
   tree_low_cst (DECL_SIZE_UNIT (decl), 1)

-- 
Alan Modra
IBM OzLabs - Linux Technology Centre

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