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Set USE_BRL in elfxx-ia64.c at run-time?

Jim Wilson wilson@tuliptree.org
Mon Mar 3 19:53:00 GMT 2003 
H. J. Lu wrote:
> Right now, USE_BRL in elfxx-ia64.c is set at the compile time.
> Shouldn't we change it a run-time option? Is that a good idea?

We could probably just remove the macro and emit BRL always.  This will 
hurt Itanium1 performance, but anyone who cares about performance 
shouldn't be using an Itanium1 processor anyways.  There probably aren't 
many people left with working Itanium1 machines.

I think some of the recent Red Hat Linux releases do this already.

Jim
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