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Re: base + index register addressing
- To: law at cygnus dot com, meissner at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: base + index register addressing
- From: meissner at cygnus dot com
- Date: Fri, 17 Oct 1997 12:37:13 -0400 (EDT)
- Cc: egcs at cygnus dot com, gcc2 at cygnus dot com, michaelh at ongaonga dot chch dot cri dot nz
| It's worth noting that patch only helps when the base/index is a hard reg,
| which limits its usefulness on most of our platforms. It's unclear if
| the benefit for handling scaled register would outweigh the work involved.
Consider when the base register is the stack/frame/argument pointer.