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Re: frv: asm reloads for pseudos assigned to memory fail
- From: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at redhat dot com>
- To: Joern Rennecke <joern dot rennecke at superh dot com>
- Cc: rth at redhat dot com (Richard Henderson), gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: 30 Jul 2004 06:45:18 -0300
- Subject: Re: frv: asm reloads for pseudos assigned to memory fail
- Organization: Red Hat Global Engineering Services Compiler Team
- References: <200407291934.i6TJYgi11025@chloe.uk.w2k.superh.com>
On Jul 29, 2004, Joern Rennecke <joern.rennecke@superh.com> wrote:
> and you can avoid inadvertantly using a load in the non-PIC case by making
> the load alternatives expensive enough.
Bzzzt! Wrong. :-)
Making the alternatives expensive enough will just make it more
difficult for them to be chosen. It won't avoid it entirely, unless
you add so many `?'s that it becomes equivalent to `!' as far as
reload is concerned.
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