two PPC gcc issues in 2.95.3 ->

Alan Modra amodra@bigpond.net.au
Tue Jun 24 05:41:00 GMT 2003


On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 02:45:26PM -0400, Michael Meissner wrote:
> REL24 means pc-relative calls and jumps must be within 2**24 bytes.

Nit: +/- 2**25 bytes.  The unconditional branch instruction has a 24 bit
signed offset field, in units of 4 bytes.

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Alan Modra
IBM OzLabs - Linux Technology Centre



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