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Re: PATCH: Current incarnation of subreg-byte
On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 04:16:51PM -0800, Richard Henderson wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 12:08:42AM +0100, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
> > Out of interest, has (a variant of this) patch been included in Red Hat's
> > GCC 2.96 that is shipping with Red Hat 7.0?
>
> Yes. And it is enabled for all architectures, not just Sparc.
>
> > Also, did I understand correctly, that this patch is necessary for correct
> > resp. ABI compliant UltraSPARC 64-bit code generation?
>
> Well, it's necessary for _efficient_ UltraSPARC code generation.
> There are other less invasive ways the problem can be solved on
> the gcc 3.0 branch.
Would such a way still be ABI compatible with code generated by the
subreg-byte changes? If so, I'd be interested in this less invasive way.
I'd hate to have to wait another release just to start supporting
64bit sparc, or worse, have to carry around a huge patch with our
compiler.
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