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Re: powerpc64-linux infrastructure 5 of 6

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
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