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Re: Patch/RFC: -mlongcall and #pragma longcall for PowerPC
On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 06:00:46PM -0400, David Edelsohn wrote:
> Any reason that you list the symbolic call patterns before the
> indirect call patterns?
Only that I hadn't noticed all the others were the other way around.
I've swapped them in my tree along with some other fixes.
> Also, when you document the longcall pragma, would you please make
> it clear to which GCC configurations it applies. SVR4? eABI? It
> definitely does not apply to AIX and Darwin.
Huh? As far as I can tell this is a universal issue. In fact, I
modeled the SVR4 indirect call patterns after the AIX ones. It's
about getting around the 64-megabyte limit on 'b <symbol>', not any
ABI specific issue.
zw