Supporting pthreads in libjava on Tru64 UNIX

Richard Henderson rth@redhat.com
Mon Jul 7 20:16:00 GMT 2003


On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 07:20:55PM +0200, Rainer Orth wrote:
>                               "       beq %0,3f\n"
>                               "       mb\n"
>                               "2:\n"
> +#       ifdef __ELF__
>                               ".section .text2,\"ax\"\n"
> +#       endif
>                               "3:     br 1b\n"
> +#       ifdef __ELF__
>                               ".previous"
> +#       endif

With the ifdefing, you've created an infinite loop.
Just nuke it all and do "beq %0,1b"; ev6 machines
have much better bracnch prediction and don't care
so much about forward vs back branches.

Alternately, if you're using gas, do ".subsection 1"
instead of ".section .text2".


r~



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