Re: MIPS gas relaxation still doesn't work

[Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com>]

On Oct 14, 2002, "H. J. Lu" <hjl@lucon.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 02:43:26PM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
>> On Oct 14, 2002, "H. J. Lu" <hjl@lucon.org> wrote:
>> 
>> > The problem here is when gcc fills the delay slot with nop, it kills
>> > branch relaxation.
>> 
>> It wouldn't if only the delay slot was enclosed in .set nomacro.

> What do you mean by that?

Instead of:

.set noreorder
.set nomacro
b foo
nop
.set macro
.set reorder

perhaps we could emit:

.set noreorder
b foo
.set nomacro
nop
.set macro
.set reorder


Since b foo wouldn't be affected by nomacro, branch relaxing could
fix it up (the relaxations are delay-slot-safe).

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