Re: m68k-openbsd -fpic fix

[Jeffrey A Law <law at cygnus dot com>]

  In message <19990626153434.A28430@cygnus.com>you write:
  > On Thu, Jun 24, 1999 at 06:22:47PM -0600, Jeffrey A Law wrote:
  > >   > See http://egcs.cygnus.com/ml/egcs-bugs/1999-05/msg00764.html
  > >   > for an example of how critical it is.
  > >
  > > I've already stated that bug is unlikely to get fixed.
  > 
  > I had a look at this this morning.  Unless I'm dreadfully mistaken,
  > this is not a difficult bug, but in fact quite simple.
  > 
  > m68k can load arbitrary floating point constants directly.  There's
  > no need to spill them to memory, pic or non-pic.  It would probably
  > make for smaller code if constants that appeared more than once 
  > were spilled to memory earlier, but no effort has been made to do
  > this.  In any case, there's no need to do it during reload.
  > 
  > So a simple tweek to PREFERRED_RELOAD_CLASS seems to be all that's
  > necessary.
  > 
  > 
  > r~
  > 
  > 
  > 	* m68k.h (PREFERRED_RELOAD_CLASS): Don't force any FP const_doubles
  > 	to memory.
I went ahead and installed this (mainline and branch).
jeff