RE: [PATCH 3/3] MIPS/GCC: Mark trailing labels with `.insn'

2016-11-14 Thread Matthew Fortune
Maciej Rozycki writes: > This however requires the correct annotation of branch targets as code, > because the ISA mode is not relevant for data symbols and is therefore > not recorded for them. I wonder if it would have been possible to add the ISA mode to data symbols and hide it in readelf/ob

RE: [PATCH 3/3] MIPS/GCC: Mark trailing labels with `.insn'

2016-11-16 Thread Maciej W. Rozycki
On Mon, 14 Nov 2016, Matthew Fortune wrote: > > This however requires the correct annotation of branch targets as code, > > because the ISA mode is not relevant for data symbols and is therefore > > not recorded for them. > > I wonder if it would have been possible to add the ISA mode to data >

RE: [PATCH 3/3] MIPS/GCC: Mark trailing labels with `.insn'

2016-11-16 Thread Matthew Fortune
Maciej Rozycki writes: > On Mon, 14 Nov 2016, Matthew Fortune wrote: > > > > This however requires the correct annotation of branch targets as > > > code, because the ISA mode is not relevant for data symbols and is > > > therefore not recorded for them. > > > > I wonder if it would have been pos

RE: [PATCH 3/3] MIPS/GCC: Mark trailing labels with `.insn'

2016-11-16 Thread Maciej W. Rozycki
On Wed, 16 Nov 2016, Matthew Fortune wrote: > > Based on this observation however I have determined that moving > > multilib > > and related flags such as `-mabi=n64' and possibly also `-Wl,-rpath,...' > > from `$board_info(...,cflags)' over to `$board_info(...,multilib_flags)' > > helps a bit an