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Date:      Wed, 26 Feb 2003 17:31:20 -0500 (EST)
From:      Bryan Liesner <bleez@verizon.net>
To:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: -O2 considered harmful
Message-ID:  <20030226172500.Q42451@gravy.kishka.net>
In-Reply-To: <xzpy943xnhx.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
References:  <xzpy943xnhx.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>

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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).
>
> Has anybody else run into this?
>
> DES
>

I have seen this as well, using -O2 -march=athlon-xp.
The generated assembler tried to stuff -129 into a single byte.

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