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Re: two PPC gcc issues in 2.95.3 ->

From: Eric Christopher <echristo at redhat dot com>
To: Michael Meissner <gcc-mail at the-meissners dot org>
Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, mdouglas at metrowerks dot com
Date: 23 Jun 2003 11:55:19 -0700
Subject: Re: two PPC gcc issues in 2.95.3 ->
Organization:
References: <C15E3F90882BAA49B78E5D3B8F2DAC0A5C7307@MW-AUS01.mtwk.sps.mot.com> <20030623184526.GA23980@tiktok.the-meissners.org>

> 
> REL24 means pc-relative calls and jumps must be within 2**24 bytes.  This is
> due to the instruction layout.  You can direct the compiler to call functions
> through a pointer with either the longcall attribute, or with the -mlongcall
> switch which affects all function calls.  You might check whether newer
> releases of the linker will insert some code that is linked near the call, and
> then loads up the long address and jumps to it.
> 

ppc64 will. 32 will not.

-eric

-- 
Eric Christopher <echristo@redhat.com>

References:
- two PPC gcc issues in 2.95.3 ->
  - From: Mark Douglas
- Re: two PPC gcc issues in 2.95.3 ->
  - From: Michael Meissner

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