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Re: Adding a MIPS hardware bug work-around to GAS...
- From: Eric Christopher <echristo at redhat dot com>
- To: Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com>
- Cc: "Steven J. Hill" <sjhill at realitydiluted dot com>, binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 10:47:03 -0700
- Subject: Re: Adding a MIPS hardware bug work-around to GAS...
- References: <40B278C5.6010907@realitydiluted.com> <40B4AD74.5070606@redhat.com>
> > I think that the proper solution is to place the work-around
> > inside of GAS.
>
> > I just could not
> > find a nice way in the MIPS .md file for GCC to do this. Thoughts?
>
> There is already a precedent for doing this. See the code for the
> -mfix-vr4120 in gas/config/tc-mips.c for an example.
This could work. However, I'm curious what problems Steven had in the
compiler as well. md_reorg should be able to solve these problems.
-eric
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Eric Christopher <echristo@redhat.com>