On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 7:35 PM, augustine.sterl...@gmail.com <augustine.sterl...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 6:09 PM, Max Filippov <jcmvb...@gmail.com> wrote: >> With support from assembler this option allows compiling huge functions, >> where single literal pool at the beginning of a function may not be >> reachable by L32R instructions at its end. >> >> Currently assembler --auto-litpools option cannot deal with literals >> used from multiple locations separated by more than 256 KBytes of code. >> Don't turn constants into literals, instead use MOVI instruction to load >> them into registers and let the assembler turn them into literals as >> necessary. > > If this is OK with the linux people, it is OK with me. As I recall, > they used to have a need to keep literals in page-level groups, but my > memory is hazy.
Text-section-literals remain available, and without auto-litpools option code generation doesn't change at all. Even with auto-litpools option literals will tend to pool at the beginning of functions, so code generation shouldn't change much. I've applied the patch to trunk. -- Thanks. -- Max
