[llvm] r211174 - [PowerPC] Do not use BLA with the 64-bit SVR4 ABI

[Hal Finkel]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ulrich Weigand" <Ulrich.Weigand at de.ibm.com>
> To: "Hal Finkel" <hfinkel at anl.gov>
> Cc: llvm-commits at cs.uiuc.edu
> Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2014 11:58:37 AM
> Subject: Re: [llvm] r211174 - [PowerPC] Do not use BLA with the 64-bit SVR4 ABI
> 
> Hal Finkel <hfinkel at anl.gov> wrote on 18.06.2014 18:48:41:
> 
> > I don't understand; what happens now?
> 
> The absolute value is loaded into a register, and then the usual
> indirect call sequence takes place (dereferencing the function
> descriptor, loading the TOC etc.)

Okay; instead of removing the test, can you add it back and just change what it is testing for?

Thanks again,
Hal

> 
> Bye,
> Ulrich
> 
> 

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Hal Finkel
Assistant Computational Scientist
Leadership Computing Facility
Argonne National Laboratory