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Re: Biutils compatilibility breakage in 2.24 for PPC
- From: Alan Modra <amodra at gmail dot com>
- To: "alexandru dot sardan at freescale dot com" <alexandru dot sardan at freescale dot com>
- Cc: "binutils at sourceware dot org" <binutils at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2014 23:49:49 +0930
- Subject: Re: Biutils compatilibility breakage in 2.24 for PPC
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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
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Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM