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Re: Graph coloring for register allocation?
- To: "Zack Weinberg" <zackw at Stanford dot EDU>
- Subject: Re: Graph coloring for register allocation?
- From: David Edelsohn <dje at watson dot ibm dot com>
- Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 14:18:44 -0500
- cc: Daniel Berlin <dberlin at redhat dot com>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
>>>>> "Zack Weinberg" writes:
Zack> (c4x/c4x.c) When they say "can screw up", they mean "can make reload
Zack> abort."
Isn't the question whether the new allocator can replace reload,
or at least most of it? If the new allocator can replace the part of
reload which crashes in this type of case, there is not problem.
MPY-ADD allocation seems more like carefully obeying the register
classes as opposed to a constant that cannot be loaded directly or a value
ending up in completely the wrong register which requires secondary and
tertiary reloads to fix up.
David