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Re: 2.95, x86: severe performance problems with short arithmetic
- To: law at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: 2.95, x86: severe performance problems with short arithmetic
- From: Zack Weinberg <zack at bitmover dot com>
- Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 12:28:57 -0700
- cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, rth at cygnus dot com
Jeffrey A Law wrote:
> In message <199908101852.LAA11338@zack.bitmover.com>you write:
> > so I am guessing that the problem is with this piece of i386.md:
> Yes. Read the comments and the changelog. That'll tell you why it is
> there and who put it in. Iterate with them over the change.
>
> We do not want to just rip out that block. That is not a solution.
The block in question has been there since before the 1.1 rev of
i386.md. I don't see anything that looks related in any of the
FSFChangeLog files available to me.
zw