From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 15684 invoked by alias); 2 Mar 2005 02:22:18 -0000 Mailing-List: contact binutils-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: binutils-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 15128 invoked from network); 2 Mar 2005 02:22:16 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO iris1.csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de) (129.69.118.2) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 2 Mar 2005 02:22:16 -0000 Received: from rembrandt.csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de ([129.69.118.42]) by iris1.csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de with esmtp id 1D6JV7-0004DP-00; Wed, 02 Mar 2005 03:22:13 +0100 Received: from ica2_ts by rembrandt.csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1D6JV6-0003gF-00; Wed, 02 Mar 2005 03:22:12 +0100 Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2005 02:22:00 -0000 To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" Cc: Richard Sandiford , binutils@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [patch] MIPS: Fix synthesized doubleword transfers (ping) Message-ID: <20050302022212.GB1272@rembrandt.csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de> References: <87sm3lhdo1.fsf@firetop.home> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i From: Thiemo Seufer X-SW-Source: 2005-03/txt/msg00060.txt.bz2 Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: [snip] > > [ Although, as is probably clear from earlier messages, my preference is > > to keep things the way they are, and require any symbolic component to > > be 8-byte aligned. I've never heard of any practical problems with that > > restriction. OTOH, after the above, I don't have any new data or > > arguments to add, so I'll shut up now ;) ] FWIW, I agree with Richard. > It works with native 64-bit transfers -- why should it be broken with > their 32-bit macro counterparts? > > Actually I wouldn't mind ditching these macros altogether. ;-) They are IMHO a bad idea (but not bad enough to remove them). Thiemo