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RISC-V Adjust long unconditional branch sequence
Andrew and I independently noted the long unconditional branch sequence was using the "call" pseudo op. Technically it works, but it's a bit odd. This patch flips it to use the "jump" pseudo-op. This was tested with a hacked-up local compiler which forced all branches/jumps to be long jumps. Naturally it triggered some failures for scan-asm tests but no execution regressions (which is mostly what I was testing for). I've updated the long branch support item in the RISE wiki to indicate that we eventually want a register scavenging approach with a fallback to $ra in the future so that we don't muck up the return address predictors. It's not super-high priority and shouldn't be terrible to implement given we've got the $ra fallback when a suitable register can not be found. gcc/ * config/riscv/riscv.md (jump): Adjust sequence to use a "jump" pseudo op instead of a "call" pseudo op.
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