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Re: [patch] VAX ELF PIC support.

From: Matt Thomas <matt at 3am-software dot com>
To: Richard Henderson <rth at redhat dot com>
Cc: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2003 22:45:42 -0700
Subject: Re: [patch] VAX ELF PIC support.

On Sunday, September 21, 2003, at 10:18 PM, Richard Henderson wrote:

On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 03:09:31PM -0700, Matt Thomas wrote:
So the assembler can warn about non-PIC expressions.
	movl	$foo, %r0     generates a warning
	movab foo, %r0	does not.
Any chance you could add an assembler directive to control
this instead?  Having to rely on specs is evil.

Why is this any more evil than using any other assembler switch (alpha for cpu extenstion, ppc for 32/64/altivec, etc.)? All those "could be done with assembler directives" as well. I don't see why an assembler directive is less evil than specs, especially give the current wide use of assembler specs. -- Matt Thomas email: matt@3am-software.com 3am Software Foundry www: http://3am-software.com/bio/matt/ Cupertino, CA disclaimer: I avow all knowledge of this message.

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