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Re: Assembly output optimisations (was: PR 51094 - fprint_w() in output_addr_const() reinstated)
- From: Ian Lance Taylor <iant at google dot com>
- To: Dimitrios Apostolou <jimis at gmx dot net>
- Cc: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org, Andrey Belevantsev <abel at ispras dot ru>, jason at gcc dot gnu dot org, Hans-Peter Nilsson <hp at bitrange dot com>, Mike Stump <mikestump at comcast dot net>, Andreas Schwab <schwab at linux-m68k dot org>
- Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2012 15:43:08 -0700
- Subject: Re: Assembly output optimisations (was: PR 51094 - fprint_w() in output_addr_const() reinstated)
- References: <alpine.LNX.2.02.1208070228080.20463@localhost.localdomain> <alpine.LNX.2.02.1208080005270.20463@localhost.localdomain>
On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 2:24 PM, Dimitrios Apostolou <jimis@gmx.net> wrote:
>
> BTW I can't find why ELF_STRING_LIMIT is only 256, it seems GAS supports
> arbitrary lengths. I'd have to change my code if we ever set it too high (or
> even unlimited) since I allocate the buffer on the stack.
See the comment for ELF_STRING_LIMIT in config/elfos.h. gas is not
the only ELF assembler.
Ian