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Re: patch for broken thunk on sparc

From: Alexey Starovoytov <Alexey dot Starovoytov at Sun dot COM>
To: Eric Botcazou <ebotcazou at libertysurf dot fr>
Cc: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org, "David S. Miller" <davem at davemloft dot net>
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 20:09:07 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Re: patch for broken thunk on sparc
References: <Pine.GSO.4.31.0604072342360.7885-100000@boojum> <20060410.225348.49508537.davem@davemloft.net> <Pine.GSO.4.63.0604111937560.9147@boojum> <200604120836.47776.ebotcazou@libertysurf.fr>

On Wed, 12 Apr 2006, Eric Botcazou wrote:

I'm not a big fan of that hacky thunk. One could rewrite it with
'save, call pic_helper, restore, jmp %g1, nop'
That's exactly what I proposed 3 messages ago. :-)

If you think that sort of a change would be ok for all 4.x branches, please implement it. I needed quick and simple fix for that problem, so was the proposed patch.

Alex.

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