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Re: [wwwdocs patch] Document s390 back-end changes for 4.1
- From: Gerald Pfeifer <gerald at pfeifer dot com>
- To: Ulrich Weigand <uweigand at de dot ibm dot com>
- Cc: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 23:31:45 +0100 (CET)
- Subject: Re: [wwwdocs patch] Document s390 back-end changes for 4.1
- References: <200602161711.k1GHBGg1025924@d12av02.megacenter.de.ibm.com>
On Thu, 16 Feb 2006, Ulrich Weigand wrote:
> this patch adds the changes made to the s390 back-end to the
> gcc-4.1 changes.html web page.
Sure!
Consider the following comment at the top of that file. ;-)
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I also had a look at the concrete changes, and these definitely look
fine, though I'll admit I didn't understand all details.
> + <li>The full set of atomic builtin operations.</li>
> + <li>The Stack Smashing Protector feature.</li>
> + <li>The variable argument optimization.</li>
Perhaps you'd like to add a bit more on the first and third items above?
(What does the optimization do? Where is the set of builtin operations
defined? Is it documented in our docs, so that we could refer to that?)
Gerald