Could you rename the option to "disable-mips-delay-filler" (false by default)?

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From: Carl Norum [[email protected]]
Sent: Friday, August 17, 2012 4:00 PM
To: Hatanaka, Akira
Cc: Eli Friedman; cfe-commits
Subject: Re: [cfe-commits] Plumbing through some MIPS options

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 [[email protected]]
> 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 <[email protected]> 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


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