Infrastructure for long branches?

[Richard Henderson]

On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 05:37:02PM -0500, lucier@math.purdue.edu wrote:
> 1.  Is there generic code somewhere in the gcc code base to handle this
>     generic problem?  Can this code be adapted to the sparc?

Yes and yes.

> 2.  I don't know how I, personally, would fix this problem.  Would the
>     gcc maintainers entertain a patch that introduces a new -m flag to
>     disable sparcv9 branches?

Doesn't help when you need to use %xcc instead of %icc, i.e. with
any 64-bit comparison.  You'll still be hosed by the 1MB limit.


r~