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From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Enlarge MAX_ALLOCA?
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 19:36:55 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zjh87qdk.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83oaxostwv.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Thu, 19 Jun 2014 20:14:56 +0300")

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> As I said: there are architectural reasons (short addressing mode)
>> making somewhat less than 32kB a good choice on some architectures.
>
> But do we support such architectures?  I think we don't.

(info "(gcc) Machine constraints") lists a lot of architectures having
constraints (and consequently instructions) with 16-bit offsets.

-- 
David Kastrup



  reply	other threads:[~2014-06-19 17:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-06-19 16:02 Enlarge MAX_ALLOCA? Eli Zaretskii
2014-06-19 16:23 ` David Kastrup
2014-06-19 16:48   ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-06-19 17:04     ` David Kastrup
2014-06-19 17:14       ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-06-19 17:36         ` David Kastrup [this message]
2014-06-19 17:51           ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-06-19 18:21   ` Stefan Monnier
2014-06-19 21:13     ` David Kastrup
2014-06-20  7:10       ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-06-20  8:08         ` David Kastrup
2014-06-20  8:38     ` Dmitry Antipov
2014-06-20  8:56       ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-06-20  9:26       ` Andreas Schwab
2014-06-20  9:38         ` David Kastrup
2014-06-19 18:28 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-06-19 18:38   ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-06-19 20:37     ` Stefan Monnier
2014-06-20  7:08       ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-06-20 13:02         ` Stefan Monnier
2014-06-20 13:18           ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-06-20 14:43             ` Stefan Monnier
2014-06-20 14:50               ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-06-20 15:15               ` Herring, Davis
2014-06-20 15:44                 ` Dmitry Antipov
2014-06-20 18:36                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-06-21 13:01     ` K. Handa
2014-06-21 13:59       ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-06-21 17:08         ` Stefan Monnier
2014-06-22  9:22         ` K. Handa
2014-06-28 14:15           ` K. Handa
2014-06-28 14:38             ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-06-21 15:19       ` David Kastrup

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