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PATCH: Support .quad for x32

Jan Beulich JBeulich@novell.com
Tue Mar 29 13:03:00 GMT 2011 
>>> On 29.03.11 at 14:51, "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 1:35 AM, Jan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com> wrote:
>>>>> On 29.03.11 at 00:51, "H.J. Lu" <hongjiu.lu@intel.com> wrote:
>> Looks more like a compiler bug than something that needs fixing in
> 
> Reload generates 64bit symbol address in constant pool.  I decided it
> is a nice optimization for x32.  Otherwise, we have to do it like ia32. See:
> 
> http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=47958 
> 
>> binutils. If programming in assembly, using .quad may be intended
> 
> handle_quad has
> 
>   if (x86_elf_abi != X86_64_X32_ABI)
>     {
>       cons (nbytes);
>       return;
>     }
> 
> It only applies to x32.

Are you suggesting that no-one should write assembly code for x32?

Jan
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