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From: Richard Sandiford <rdsandiford@googlemail.com>
To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@codesourcery.com>
Cc: Catherine Moore <clm@codesourcery.com>,  binutils@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.0/4 v3] MIPS/GAS: Propagate symbol attributes
Date: Thu, 09 Dec 2010 17:25:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <g439q6uae5.fsf@richards-desktop-2.stglab.manchester.uk.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.10.1012081023090.5345@tp.orcam.me.uk> (Maciej	W. Rozycki's message of "Wed\, 8 Dec 2010 19\:24\:22 +0000 \(GMT\)")

"Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@codesourcery.com> writes:
>> Sorry for not really getting to this patch when you posted the original
>> series.  Do you actually have a "real world" use case for this though?
>> Why wouldn't you just put "fnord:" in the appropriate place?
>
>  Please note this issue only affects disassembly -- I have not observed 
> any other unexpected symptoms.  In particular all the relocated entities 
> referring to the symbols concerned get the ISA mode set regardless of this 
> change.
>
>  So it's not about whether we should treat these symbols as MIPS16 code
> references or not, but to match the reality and not mislead the user into 
> thinking standard MIPS code is being concerned.

You haven't answered my question, or at least not in a way that
makes me understand it.  The testcase in your original message
was a very artificial one, artificial enough that the correct
disassembly is open to debate.  Do you have a real-world example
of people writing code like this?

Richard

  reply	other threads:[~2010-12-09 17:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-07-26 10:48 [PATCH 4/4] " Maciej W. Rozycki
2010-10-29 14:40 ` [PATCH 4.0/4 v2] " Maciej W. Rozycki
2010-10-30 10:37   ` Richard Sandiford
2010-12-08 19:24     ` [PATCH 4.0/4 v3] " Maciej W. Rozycki
2010-12-09 17:25       ` Richard Sandiford [this message]
2010-12-09 18:02         ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2010-12-11  0:09           ` [PATCH 4.0/4 v4] MIPS/GAS/testsuite: Branch to self/label tests Maciej W. Rozycki

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