Doing mips relocs the alpha way

[Mark Mitchell]

On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 11:35, Richard Sandiford wrote:
> Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com> writes:
> > On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 14:18, Eric Christopher wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > Mark? I believe you have the final say. I don't expect a lot of bug
> > > > fixing in the mips backend (unless I get a lot of bug reports sometime
> > > > soon) so the danger there is minimal.
> > > 
> > > Actually, apparently I can just say OK. So, OK.
> > 
> > Umm, well, you can say OK -- but only if it fixes a regression.
> > 
> > I don't see any evidence that this patch does fix a regression, so I
> > think it should be held for GCC 3.5.
> 
> It fixes a performance regression.  Without it, combine can't
> create small data addresses with nonzero offsets.

Ah, good.  Thanks.

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