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Re: Fwd: Question on parallel execution inside the processor
- To: egcs at cygnus dot com, N8TM at aol dot com
- Subject: Re: Fwd: Question on parallel execution inside the processor
- From: Michael Meissner <meissner at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1998 15:33:29 -0400
- Cc: martin dot kahlert at mchp dot siemens dot de
| I believe that's one reason the MIPS port doesn't support gas. The MIPS
| assembler generally achieves 70% of the performance of a native compiler when
| used with egcs on R10K, which is getting a boost both from the assembler and
| from the hardware out-of-order execution. There's a cost, of course-- no gdb,
| considerable loss of profiling information.
GCC has supported GAS on the MIPS for about 7 years now. Granted GAS doesn't
optimize like the MIPS assembler does, but GCC does indeed support it. You do
have to specify the appropriate --with-gnu-as and --with-gnu-ld when
configuring GCC to clue it in that you are using GAS and the GNU linker.
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