From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 8749 invoked by alias); 11 Apr 2002 16:15:36 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 8645 invoked from network); 11 Apr 2002 16:15:33 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO cygnus.com) (205.180.230.5) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 11 Apr 2002 16:15:33 -0000 Received: from porcupine.cygnus.com (remus.sfbay.redhat.com [172.16.27.252]) by runyon.cygnus.com (8.8.7-cygnus/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA01581 for ; Thu, 11 Apr 2002 09:15:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from porcupine.cygnus.com (IDENT:+a1ZqBijYyNO/JKScx/ev2sLaYXfUlWi@localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by porcupine.cygnus.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g3BGItA8002986; Thu, 11 Apr 2002 10:18:55 -0600 Received: from porcupine.cygnus.com (law@localhost) by porcupine.cygnus.com (8.12.2/8.12.2/Submit) with ESMTP id g3BGItUs002982; Thu, 11 Apr 2002 10:18:55 -0600 To: "John David Anglin" cc: h.m.brand@hccnet.nl (H.Merijn Brand), gcc@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: gcc-64 on HP-UX 11.00 Reply-To: law@redhat.com From: law@redhat.com In-reply-to: Your message of Thu, 11 Apr 2002 11:18:49 EDT. <200204111518.g3BFIoZE029965@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 09:19:00 -0000 Message-ID: <2981.1018541935@porcupine.cygnus.com> X-SW-Source: 2002-04/txt/msg00444.txt.bz2 In message <200204111518.g3BFIoZE029965@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca>, "John David Anglin " writes: > Gcc doesn't generate inline plabels on the PA. It would save one insn > and one data location if we could use these selectors. However, there > have been problems with them in 32bit land for years. I think the > current assembler can handle them but the SOM linker still doesn't > handle them. Actually the SOM linker can handle them, but there are corner cases with very large executables where it's impossible for the SOM linker to properly fixup an inline plabel. For that reason we stopped using them based on a recommendation from HP. jeff