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Re: Infrastructure for long branches?
- From: Richard Henderson <rth at redhat dot com>
- To: lucier at math dot purdue dot edu
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 17:27:40 -0800
- Subject: Re: Infrastructure for long branches?
- References: <200202072237.g17Mb2Z05676@banach.math.purdue.edu>
On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 05:37:02PM -0500, lucier@math.purdue.edu wrote:
> 1. Is there generic code somewhere in the gcc code base to handle this
> generic problem? Can this code be adapted to the sparc?
Yes and yes.
> 2. I don't know how I, personally, would fix this problem. Would the
> gcc maintainers entertain a patch that introduces a new -m flag to
> disable sparcv9 branches?
Doesn't help when you need to use %xcc instead of %icc, i.e. with
any 64-bit comparison. You'll still be hosed by the 1MB limit.
r~