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Re: two PPC gcc issues in 2.95.3 ->

From: Alan Modra <amodra at bigpond dot net dot au>
To: Michael Meissner <gcc-mail at the-meissners dot org>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 11:19:48 +0930
Subject: Re: two PPC gcc issues in 2.95.3 ->
References: <C15E3F90882BAA49B78E5D3B8F2DAC0A5C7307@MW-AUS01.mtwk.sps.mot.com><20030623184526.GA23980@tiktok.the-meissners.org>

On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 02:45:26PM -0400, Michael Meissner wrote:
> REL24 means pc-relative calls and jumps must be within 2**24 bytes.

Nit: +/- 2**25 bytes.  The unconditional branch instruction has a 24 bit
signed offset field, in units of 4 bytes.

-- 
Alan Modra
IBM OzLabs - Linux Technology Centre

References:
- two PPC gcc issues in 2.95.3 ->
  - From: Mark Douglas
- Re: two PPC gcc issues in 2.95.3 ->
  - From: Michael Meissner

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