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Re: MIPS gas relaxation still doesn't work

On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 01:56:47PM -0700, Eric Christopher wrote:
> 
> > While I agree with you in theory, how would GCC handle user-written
> > asm("") blocks without an assemble-time jump relaxation of some sort?
> > 
> 
> Treat them as regions that cannot be scheduled across I believe.

No, I mean the problem that Maciej raised: how can we even pretend to
know their length?  They're a black box; we don't really want to assume
that long jumps are necessary over one, but we don't know how big they
are.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer
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