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Unreviewed patches^2
- From: Richard Sandiford <rsandifo at redhat dot com>
- To: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: 08 Oct 2003 18:43:49 +0100
- Subject: Unreviewed patches^2
- References: <wvn8yo9ff75.fsf@talisman.cambridge.redhat.com>
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Richard Sandiford <rsandifo@talisman.cambridge.redhat.com> writes:
> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2003-09/msg00657.html
> Support n32 & n64 structure return conventions. This needs a new
> target hook to control the padding of the return value.
>
> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2003-09/msg00841.html
> Take addressing modes into account when deciding whether to force
> constants into memory.
>
> [ wrt the second, symbols seem to be forced into memory quite often in
> real-world programs. E.g. emacs now has a single relocation against
> stdout, generated for a call to fprintf(). It needed no relocations
> for 3.3.
>
> Since the emacs unexec code doesn't handle mips relocs properly,
> this shows up a user-visible regression. An emacs bug, perhaps,
> but still... ]