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SubjectRe: ARC Assembler: bundle_align_mode directive support
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On 6/13/19 11:14 AM, Eugeniy Paltsev wrote:
> BTW:
> there is discussion in Linux ML about implementation of static calls.
> The idea is to patch immediate operand in jump instruction instead of using function pointers to optimize hot code.
> @vineet I bet you'll like this :)
>
> Current v3 patch revision is for x86 only and it's not applied yet. However I expect (based on comments to last patches)
> it'll be applied after several respins.

Indeed when researching on jump labels I saw that and indeed like that approach a lot.


> It would be nice to implement it for ARC too.

Absolutely.

> And x86 static calls implementation uses '.bundle_align_mode' directive too.

Ok then we have a case for pushing for this feature in tools !

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