[LLVMdev] forward branching

[Eli Friedman]

On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 6:33 PM, reed kotler <rkotler at mips.com> wrote:
> We are currently working on the direct object emitter for the Mips compiler.
>
> When we need to emit a branch instruction to a forward label, how is
> that done?
>
> In an assembler this would normally be done in a second pass.

It's done that way in MC as well; expressions which can't be resolved
immediately are recorded using MCFixup, and either resolved or
recorded into the object file later.

-Eli