Subject: re: New Toolchain's gas lossage on m68k
To: Ignatios Souvatzis <is@netbsd.org>
From: matthew green <mrg@eterna.com.au>
List: tech-toolchain
Date: 11/09/2001 18:42:19
   On Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 10:36:27PM +0000, Steve Woodford wrote:
   > What does gas do on other cpus with variable branch offset sizes?
   
   I guess:
   
   if the size isn't known beforehand, and if you're using the variable size
   opcode form, treat it as "largest possible size".



yes, often the assembler will use the largest possible size and if
the linker can relax it, it will...dunno what m68k ld does.


.mrg.