Re: A Query regarding jump pattern

2008-04-16 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
"Mohamed Shafi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ok , looking at another reply from Jim > (http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2008-04/msg00311.html), where he suggests > to use shorten_branhes in reorg and generate indirect branch, it looks > like i will have to reserve a register. Am i right? You will ha

Re: A Query regarding jump pattern

2008-04-16 Thread Mohamed Shafi
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 11:07 PM, Ian Lance Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "Mohamed Shafi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I have read in the internals that indirect_jump and jump pattern are > > necessary in any back-end for the compiler to be build and work > > successfully. For any b

Re: A Query regarding jump pattern

2008-04-14 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
"Mohamed Shafi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have read in the internals that indirect_jump and jump pattern are > necessary in any back-end for the compiler to be build and work > successfully. For any back-end there will be some limitation as to how > big the offset used in the jump instructio

A Query regarding jump pattern

2008-04-13 Thread Mohamed Shafi
Hello all, I have read in the internals that indirect_jump and jump pattern are necessary in any back-end for the compiler to be build and work successfully. For any back-end there will be some limitation as to how big the offset used in the jump instructions can be. If the offset is too big then