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Re: Biutils compatilibility breakage in 2.24 for PPC


On Wed, Apr 09, 2014 at 01:54:42PM +0000, alexandru.sardan@freescale.com wrote:
> Is there any plan to revert this in the future

Nope.  The great majority of ppc64 code benefits from having @h and
@ha report 32-bit signed overflow, rather than silently overflowing at
runtime.

> and maybe introduce another modifier that does the desired job?

Already available.  @high and @higha

-- 
Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM


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