m68k compiler does not build

[Andreas Schwab]

Gunther Nikl <gni@gecko.de> writes:

> On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 03:32:51PM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote:
>> 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.
>
>   But thats not because of efficiency but correctness?

Right.  Loading the function pointer would defeat lazy linking, though it
would be possible to avoid that.

Andreas.

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