From: "H. J. Lu" <hjl@lucon.org>
To: James E Wilson <wilson@specifixinc.com>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@redhat.com>, binutils@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: PATCH: PR 834: IA64: Change br to brl for "far" branches when possible
Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 00:58:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050512234023.GA12314@lucon.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1115940684.16805.31.camel@aretha.corp.specifixinc.com>
On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 04:31:24PM -0700, James E Wilson wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-05-12 at 16:08, Richard Henderson wrote:
> > On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 03:35:58PM -0700, James E Wilson wrote:
> > > HJ has mentioned that he would like to split elfxx-ia64.c into separate
> > > elf32-ia64.c and elf64-ia64.c files.
> > To what purpose?
>
> I don't know the details. I wasn't going to worry about it until I saw
> a patch. I assume it is part of his work to try to get the ILP32 linker
> working. Perhaps HJ can comment on this.
The code is duplicated when both ELF32 and ELF64 are configured.
Also it isn't easy to debug it. You need to handle both elfxx-ia64.c
and elf64-ia64.c. But it seems to too much effort to add elf32-ia64
add elf64-ia64.c. I gave it up.
H.J.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-05-12 23:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-05-12 16:17 H. J. Lu
2005-05-12 17:14 ` H. J. Lu
2005-05-12 20:05 ` Richard Henderson
2005-05-12 20:55 ` H. J. Lu
2005-05-12 22:36 ` Richard Henderson
2005-05-12 23:08 ` James E Wilson
2005-05-12 23:31 ` Richard Henderson
2005-05-12 23:40 ` James E Wilson
2005-05-13 0:58 ` H. J. Lu [this message]
2005-05-13 1:11 ` H. J. Lu
2005-05-13 7:40 ` H. J. Lu
2005-05-13 1:19 ` PATCH: Undo the elfNN_ia64_relax_brl change H. J. Lu
2005-05-13 7:47 PATCH: PR 834: IA64: Change br to brl for "far" branches when possible Jan Beulich
2005-05-13 14:24 ` H. J. Lu
2005-05-13 17:35 ` H. J. Lu
2005-05-16 23:47 ` Richard Henderson
2005-05-13 18:29 ` Richard Henderson
2005-05-13 18:32 ` H. J. Lu
2005-05-17 10:22 Jan Beulich
2005-05-17 15:59 ` H. J. Lu
2005-05-17 17:30 ` Richard Henderson
2005-05-17 18:09 ` H. J. Lu
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