[PowerPC] -msdata=data needless use of .sbss section

Alan Modra amodra@bigpond.net.au
Thu Oct 20 23:04:00 GMT 2005


On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 12:28:38PM -0400, David Edelsohn wrote:
> 	Why not call rs6000_elf_in_small_data_p() in the macro?

I looked at doing that, and couldn't convince myself that the size
calculated by rs6000_elf_in_small_data_p would always be the same
as that calculated by assemble_variable.  The former uses
   int_size_in_bytes (TREE_TYPE (decl))
the latter,
   tree_low_cst (DECL_SIZE_UNIT (decl), 1)

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Alan Modra
IBM OzLabs - Linux Technology Centre



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