From: Alan Modra <amodra@bigpond.net.au>
To: Torbjorn Granlund <tege@swox.com>
Cc: Geoff Keating <geoffk@redhat.com>, binutils@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: Re: powerpc64-linux infrastructure 5 of 6
Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2001 16:44:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010809091409.I939@bubble.sa.bigpond.net.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86r8um1dbq.fsf@king.swox.se>
On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 10:55:37PM +0200, Torbjorn Granlund wrote:
> Geoff Keating <geoffk@geoffk.org> writes:
>
> > Put relocs in the opcode table.
>
> This seems like a bad design.
>
> It replaces an ugly chunk of ad-hoc code in tc-ppc.c.
Boils down to:
Simplified code + larger data structure
vs.
more complex code + smaller data structure.
I admit it's arguable in this case whether the simplification warrants
the extra data size. Note that at this stage we haven't actually
introduced any changes in assembler behaviour.
Alan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-08-08 16:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-08-08 6:19 Alan Modra
2001-08-08 13:47 ` Geoff Keating
2001-08-08 13:55 ` Torbjorn Granlund
2001-08-08 16:44 ` Alan Modra [this message]
2001-08-09 12:55 ` Geoff Keating
2001-08-09 14:56 ` Alan Modra
2001-08-23 7:43 ` Torbjorn Granlund
2001-08-23 18:30 ` Alan Modra
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