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Re: merge from regalloc branch to head [pt2]
"Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@cam.ac.uk> writes:
> On Sun, 23 Jun 2002, Michael Matz wrote:
>
>> below is the diff to toplev.c and Makefile.in. Together with the files
>> ra.c, ra.h, ra-build.c, ra-colorize.c, ra-debug.c and ra-rewrite.c they
>> form those parts which I liked to have in HEAD currently. The patch just
>> makes the files compile and link in, and toplev call reg_alloc() in case
>> -fnew-ra is given (it default to off).
>
> These files contain new-style function definitions with (void), which
> isn't currently OK for the mainline for files used in stage1.
>
> They say "GNU CC" rather than GCC.
>
> There are many functions in these files without comments at the top
> explaining what they do.
>
> For inclusion in mainline, documentation in invoke.texi (of the
> command-line option) and passes.texi (of the source files) is needed.
Those will come.
> Are there any known patent issues with this code?
Not anymore, those have been solved by David Edelson (Thanks!),
Andreas
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