Hello Jonas,

There're 2 ways to define indirect symbol by the compiler:

tai_const with type aitconst_indirect_symbol
or
tai_directive with asd_indirect_symbol

either way produces identical assembler output:
.indirect_symbol %symbol_name

So i'm wondering, what was the reason to separate them the same? I know, that tai_const returns a size of the constant, while tai_directive doesn't. Is there anything else?

Neither aitconst_indirect_symbol nor asd_indirect_symbol are currently handled by TInternalAssembler.
I've modified assembler's loop so it adds additional information to the TObjSymbol.

It's not a problem to handle both ways of declaring indirect symbols, i'm just curious.

thanks,
dmitry

I think simply that I forgot that one way was already available when I added the other way :) It's fine to remove either one.

Jonas

Jonas Maebe wrote

I think simply that I forgot that one way was already available when I added the other way :) It's fine to remove either one.

hmm... I'll try to make the patch.

thanks,
dmitry

dmitry boyarintsev wrote

hmm... I'll try to make the patch.

here's the one: http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=15050

Removing tai_const with indirect_symbol doesn't seem to harm the generated asm code at all, at least for i386 target.

thanks,
dmitry