Zack Weinberg zack@codesourcery.com
Fri May 28 21:59:00 GMT 2004

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Thiemo Seufer <ica2_ts@csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de> writes:

> Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> [snip]
>> 	asm("dla\t%0,%1" : "=r" (result) : "m" (foo));
> [snip]
>> 	lui	$2,%highest(foo)
>> 	daddiu	$2,$2,%higher(foo)
>> 	dsll	$2,$2,16
>> 	daddiu	$2,$2,%hi(foo)
>> 	dsll	$2,$2,16
>> #APP
>> 	dla	$2,%lo(foo)($2)
>> #NO_APP
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> IMHO this is broken in the compiler. It should either only provide the
> sympol for %1, or handle the dla expansion correctly, preferably with
> better optimization for superscalar processors (that is, a
> lui - lui - daddiu - daddiu - dsll32 - daddu sequence).

Huh? This is an asm statement; the compiler has no idea that it's a
dla instruction.

zw

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