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Re: gcc-64 on HP-UX 11.00
- From: law at redhat dot com
- To: "John David Anglin" <dave at hiauly1 dot hia dot nrc dot ca>
- Cc: h dot m dot brand at hccnet dot nl (H.Merijn Brand), gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 10:18:55 -0600
- Subject: Re: gcc-64 on HP-UX 11.00
- Reply-to: law at redhat dot com
In message <200204111518.g3BFIoZE029965@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca>, "John David
Anglin
" writes:
> Gcc doesn't generate inline plabels on the PA. It would save one insn
> and one data location if we could use these selectors. However, there
> have been problems with them in 32bit land for years. I think the
> current assembler can handle them but the SOM linker still doesn't
> handle them.
Actually the SOM linker can handle them, but there are corner cases with
very large executables where it's impossible for the SOM linker to properly
fixup an inline plabel. For that reason we stopped using them based on
a recommendation from HP.
jeff