m68k compiler does not build

Andreas Schwab schwab@suse.de
Fri May 14 13:54:00 GMT 2004


Gunther Nikl <gni@gecko.de> writes:

>   A word relative branch takes 4 bytes and its short form 2 bytes.
>   Then function CSE is not always beneficial: it eats up a register and
>   requires a move if GCC stored the function address in a data register
>   since indirect branches have to be done through an address register.
>   I wonder if functions-cse is really beneficial for m68k.

Note that function-cse is already disabled for PIC.

Andreas.

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