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Re: Minor tweak to function.c:keep_stack_depressed
On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 12:44:46PM -0800, Eric Christopher wrote:
> > This is used only by Ada and only on some targets.
> >
> > Wed Dec 5 06:26:27 2001 Richard Kenner <kenner@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu>
> >
> > * function.c (keep_stack_depressed): Refine check for register
> > clobbered over call.
> >
>
> If you want to check that a function has been clobbered over a call you
> should, I believe, only check TEST_HARD_REG_BIT
> (regs_invalidated_by_call, no) and not check !fixed_regs[regno] as well.
> This will give you false positives. See propagate_one_insn for a similar
> check.
Actually, he's looking for an available temporary register.
There are a number of bugs here. Not the least of which is
failing to honor EPILOGUE_USES or tracking which registers
are being used as temporaries by the epilogue itself.
r~