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From:   "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org>
To:     Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] MIPS: remove GCC < 4.9 support
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On Thu, 12 Nov 2020, Nick Desaulniers wrote:

> >  It probably makes sense to get rid of GCC_OFF_SMALL_ASM altogether, as
> > this syntactical indirection brings us nothing at this point and only
> > obfuscates sources.
> 
> Sure, that sounds good. Send a patch!

 Well, I have felt satisfied enough with making the original patch, commit 
b0984c43702f ("MIPS: Fix microMIPS LL/SC immediate offsets"), so I'll give 
someone else the chance to take the pride of undoing it now, now that it's 
not needed anymore.

  Maciej