Subject: Re: EGCS enabled on mips
To: Jonathan Stone <jonathan@dsg.stanford.edu>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: current-users
Date: 10/31/1998 09:41:04
On Sat, 31 Oct 1998 04:51:33 -0800 
 Jonathan Stone <jonathan@DSG.Stanford.EDU> wrote:

 > For the addresses that the mips can handle (16-bit signed constant)
 > plus a register), breaking up addresses and doing CSE will result in
 > strictly worse code than just backing out the changes to expr.c which
 > caused the problem; but that would hurt other ports.

How about some symbol for the config header that effectively disables
the change to expr.c... and then define that in the MIPS config headers.

Wouldn't that be better?

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