[cfe-commits] Plumbing through some MIPS options

[Carl Norum]

Yeah, -G is the GCC option.  We have it passed through right now in some -Xassembler flags.

I'll turn the delay filler on by default and change the other flag's name to -G.

-- Carl


On Aug 17, 2012, at 2:25 PM, Hatanaka, Akira wrote:

> I believe this "-G" option is it:
> 
> -G NUM                  allow referencing objects up to NUM bytes
>                              implicitly with the gp register [default 8]
> ________________________________________
> From: Eli Friedman [eli.friedman at gmail.com]
> Sent: Friday, August 17, 2012 2:20 PM
> To: Hatanaka, Akira
> Cc: Carl Norum; cfe-commits
> Subject: Re: [cfe-commits] Plumbing through some MIPS options
> 
> On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 2:16 PM, Hatanaka, Akira <ahatanaka at mips.com> wrote:
>> (These are my personal opinions)
>> 
>> Turning on "-enable-mips-delay-filler" by default (in MipsDelaySlotFiller.cpp) or turning it on when compiling with "-O3" is better. I don't think it should be exposed as a command line option. We have been planning to change this for a while, but haven't done so.
>> 
>> -mmips-short-section-threshold is fine. There is a similar option in gcc.
> 
> What's the name of the gcc option?  If there's precedent, we should
> probably follow it.
> 
> -Eli