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From: Florian Lohoff <flo@rfc822.org>
To: Ralf Baechle <ralf@oss.sgi.com>
Cc: Jun Sun <jsun@mvista.com>, linux-mips@fnet.fr, linux-mips@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: The initial results (Re: stable binutils, gcc, glibc ...
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 14:30:03 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20001018143003.C2354@paradigm.rfc822.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20001018035719.F7865@bacchus.dhis.org>; from ralf@oss.sgi.com on Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 03:57:19AM +0200

On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 03:57:19AM +0200, Ralf Baechle wrote:
> 
> loop:
> 	[...]
> 	beq	r1, r2, loop
> 
> should be turned into:
> 
> loop:
> 	[...]
> 	bnez	r1, r2, 1f
> 	j	loop
> 1:
> 
> but of course only if the branch destination is outside the 16-bit range.
> Thanks to the ever increasing code size there are now several realworld
> examples which run into this problem.  Volunteers?

By thinking about this without any knowledge of the binutils code generation.

How does this work if loop is only an external symbol ? The distance
will than be relevant when linking but then the code will already be there
and one would need to insert an instruction.

Flo
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Florian Lohoff		flo@rfc822.org		      	+49-5201-669912
      "Write only memory - Oops. Time for my medication again ..."

  reply	other threads:[~2000-10-18 12:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-10-14  5:13 stable binutils, gcc, glibc Jun Sun
2000-10-14  3:55 ` Ralf Baechle
2000-10-14  4:21   ` Ralf Baechle
2000-10-14 10:57   ` Florian Lohoff
2000-10-14 14:51   ` Jay Carlson
2000-10-14 14:51     ` Jay Carlson
2000-10-14 15:09     ` Ralf Baechle
2000-10-14 16:11       ` Jay Carlson
2000-10-14 16:11         ` Jay Carlson
2000-10-14 16:29         ` Bradley D. LaRonde
2000-10-14 16:29           ` Bradley D. LaRonde
2000-10-16  0:35           ` Ralf Baechle
2000-10-16  1:33             ` Mike Klar
2000-10-16  1:33               ` Mike Klar
2000-10-16 11:26               ` Jay Carlson
2000-10-16 11:26                 ` Jay Carlson
2000-10-16 11:30                 ` Ralf Baechle
2000-10-16 12:00                 ` Ralf Baechle
2000-10-18  1:59                   ` Jay Carlson
2000-10-18  1:59                     ` Jay Carlson
2000-10-18 20:31                     ` Ralf Baechle
2000-10-14 16:11       ` Jay Carlson
2000-10-14 16:11         ` Jay Carlson
2000-10-14 16:12         ` Ralf Baechle
2000-10-14 16:22           ` Bradley D. LaRonde
2000-10-14 16:22             ` Bradley D. LaRonde
2000-10-14 23:47           ` Keith Owens
2000-10-16  1:07             ` Ralf Baechle
2000-10-16  7:00               ` Alan Cox
2000-10-16  7:00                 ` Alan Cox
2000-10-14 10:55 ` Florian Lohoff
2000-10-14 12:41   ` Ralf Baechle
     [not found]   ` <Pine.LNX.4.21.0010140730280.17430-100000@spawn.hockeyfiend.com>
2000-10-14 14:25     ` Ralf Baechle
2000-10-14 17:54       ` Florian Lohoff
2000-10-16 15:41 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2000-10-18  4:04 ` The initial results (Re: " Jun Sun
2000-10-18  1:33   ` Florian Lohoff
2000-10-18  9:20     ` Jun Sun
2000-10-18  2:25       ` nick
2000-10-18  9:18       ` Florian Lohoff
2000-10-18 12:27         ` Ralf Baechle
2000-10-18  1:57   ` Ralf Baechle
2000-10-18 12:30     ` Florian Lohoff [this message]
2000-10-18 22:37       ` Ralf Baechle
2000-10-18 11:42   ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2000-10-18 17:15     ` Jun Sun
2000-10-20 14:55       ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2000-11-06 11:43   ` Jay Carlson
2000-11-06 11:43     ` Jay Carlson
2000-10-20 11:09 ` Andreas Jaeger
2000-10-20 12:03   ` Jay Carlson
2000-10-20 12:03     ` Jay Carlson
2000-10-21  1:24     ` Ralf Baechle

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