Re: The initial results (Re: stable binutils, gcc, glibc ...

[Florian Lohoff <flo@rfc822.org>]

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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