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Re: Assembly output optimisations (was: PR 51094 - fprint_w() in output_addr_const() reinstated)

On Tue, 7 Aug 2012, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:

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.

I've seen it and thought that for non-GAS ELF platforms you should define it to override elfos.h, I obviously misunderstood. So now I'm curious, this limit is there dominating all platforms because of the worst assembler? :-)


Dimitris


P.S. there is an obvious typo in the comment, STRING_LIMIT should be ELF_STRING_LIMIT (I think I introduced the typo last year...)

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