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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
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Subject: Re: -O2 considered harmful
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On Wed, 26 Feb 2003, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:

> It seems that with -O2 on ia32 (-march=k6-2 in my case), gcc will in
> some cases generate short jumps to targets too far away for the offset
> to fit in a single byte.  A surefire way to reproduce this is to build
> Mesa (or XFree86-4-libraries, which includes parts of Mesa).

The assembler generates these.

Bruce


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