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RE: PATCH: Support more than 2 relaxation passes
- From: "Dave Korn" <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>
- To: "'James E Wilson'" <wilson at specifix dot com>, "'H. J. Lu'" <hjl at lucon dot org>
- Cc: <binutils at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2006 20:22:26 -0000
- Subject: RE: PATCH: Support more than 2 relaxation passes
On 08 March 2006 20:09, James E Wilson wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-03-08 at 11:38, H. J. Lu wrote:
>> I need to run more than 2 relaxation passes. This patch allows a
>> backend to have more than 2 relaxation passes.
>
> Why?
I can't see any line of reasoning that suggests that the iterative process
of relaxation would necessarily converge after no more than two passes, so why
not? Am I missing something that makes for a proof?
cheers,
DaveK
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