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Re: PATCH: PR 834: IA64: Change br to brl for "far" branches when possible

On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 12:56:02PM -0700, Richard Henderson wrote:
> On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 09:37:32AM -0700, H. J. Lu wrote:
> > 	* elfxx-ia64.c (elfNN_ia64_relax_br): New.
> > 	(elfNN_ia64_relax_brl): Use it.
> 
> I really wish you'd extract the three insns independently, rather
> than extracting 3 words and using quite so many arbitrary masks.
> It's not like we don't have a 64-bit type available.
> 

I was thinking to use long long since long may be 32bit. But I am not
sure if all compilers support it. I guess I can use

#if BFD_HOST_LONG_LONG
long long ..
#else
  return FALSE;
#endif


H.J.
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