Bug 65800 - branch islands created by ld for far-off branches should use brl instruction
Summary: branch islands created by ld for far-off branches should use brl instruction
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
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Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: binutils
Version: 7.1
Hardware: ia64
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Jakub Jelinek
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Reported: 2002-05-31 20:00 UTC by Satish Guggilla
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:38 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2003-03-07 18:17:14 UTC
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Description Satish Guggilla 2002-05-31 20:00:00 UTC 
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Description of problem:
When creating branch islands for branches whose targets are far off, GNU ld 
currently sets up the target address in a branch register and does a branch to 
the target address in this branch register. It will be more efficient to use 
brl instruction instead.

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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
The use of BRL in binutils/bfd/elfxx-ia64.c is turned off with 
undef USE_BRL	.

Additional info:
Comment 1 Jeff Law 2003-03-07 18:17:14 UTC 
The current development binutils/bfd sources were recently modified to
use BRL instructions.
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