Building libstdc++

Richard Henderson rth@redhat.com
Thu Dec 28 02:26:00 GMT 2000


On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 07:24:40AM -0500, Richard Kenner wrote:
> I'd like to understand what those psuedo-ops are there for, though,
> before we just delete them.

It's supposed to help branch prediction.  We want to not predict
around the loop, so we branch forward to a branch back to the 
head of the ll/sc loop.

I guess we'll have to remove that bit o cleverness for dec as...

> As to the comment lines, they clearly needn't be in the generated
> assembler code.

Last I checked, both gas and dec as accept C comments always.
But as you say it isn't really needed.


r~


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