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gcc.texi bug: reference to "stupid" allocator
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- Subject: gcc.texi bug: reference to "stupid" allocator
- From: David Mosberger <davidm at hpl dot hp dot com>
- Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 14:24:57 -0700
- Reply-To: davidm at hpl dot hp dot com
Jim Wilson explained to me that gcc3 no longer includes the "stupid"
register allocator and, for that reason, the "register" keyword is now
completely ignored as far as code-generation is concerned. AFAIK,
this breaks existing code (such as "mhz", part of lmbench), so it
might be a good idea to document this. Also, I found that "gcc.texi"
in the 3.0 pre-release still has one reference to the "stupid"
register allocator:
$ fgrep -i stupid gcc.texi
the input file name. If stupid register allocation is in use, this
This probably should be removed.
Thanks,
--david