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Optimzie brl to br for ia64

Richard Henderson rth@redhat.com
Thu Mar 13 01:09:00 GMT 2003 
On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 03:56:24PM -0800, H. J. Lu wrote:
> On ia64, brl, which may be introduced by relaxation, can be optimized
> to br. Here is a testcase:

Ok, sure, but why bother?  The cases in which one object file
is that large, and yet the target is actually in range of a 
br is approximately nil.  Plus, brl and br are the same speed
on Itanium2, so I don't see what the effort would buy you.



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