Conditional call instruction

[Geoff Keating]

Dale Johannesen <dalej@apple.com> writes:

> On Wednesday, February 13, 2002, at 08:06 AM, Mark Mitchell wrote:
> 
> > Do any of GCC's currently supported targets have a predicated call
> > instruction that GCC will use when appropriate?  Roughly speaking,
> > this is an instruction that calls only if some condition is true,
> > and otherwise falls through.
> 
> rs6000/powerpc has this in the architecture, but I've never seen
> gcc use it.

It is unusable because the range of the call is only 32k.

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- Geoffrey Keating <geoffk@geoffk.org> <geoffk@redhat.com>