Re: Status - compiling on hppa / ld sigsegv's - glibc 2.2.93
On Wed, Sep 11, 2002 at 03:58:32PM -0700, Randolph Chung wrote:
> > In _dl_start I'm not sure if r19 is expected to be correct or not - I
> > suspect that it may not be, and they didn't take into account the idea
> > that an integer divide would need to load from a constant pool... why
> > on earth is GCC generating an FP divide anyway?
>
> there's no divide insn on pa. it's generating a fp multiply against a
> constant (inverse of 1/sizeof(blah))
Division by a constant can be done entirely in integer multiplies and
shifts. It should be if your costs are anything reasonable - that
constant load must be expensive!
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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
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