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and the H8/300 For
the H8/300, ld
can perform these global optimizations when you specify the ‘-relax’
command-line option.
relaxing address modes
ld
finds all jsr
and jmp
instructions whose targets are within eight bits, and turns them into eight-bit
program-counter relative bsr
and bra
instructions, respectively.
synthesizing instructions
ld
finds all mov.b
instructions which use the sixteen-bit absolute address form, but refer
to the top page of memory, and changes them to use the eight-bit address
form. (That is, the linker turns ‘mov.b
@ aa:16’ into
‘mov.b @ aa:8’
whenever the address aa
is in the
top page of memory).