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Re: Optimzie brl to br for ia64
- From: Richard Henderson <rth at redhat dot com>
- To: "H. J. Lu" <hjl at lucon dot org>
- Cc: binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 17:09:26 -0800
- Subject: Re: Optimzie brl to br for ia64
- References: <20030312155624.A27396@lucon.org>
On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 03:56:24PM -0800, H. J. Lu wrote:
> On ia64, brl, which may be introduced by relaxation, can be optimized
> to br. Here is a testcase:
Ok, sure, but why bother? The cases in which one object file
is that large, and yet the target is actually in range of a
br is approximately nil. Plus, brl and br are the same speed
on Itanium2, so I don't see what the effort would buy you.
r~