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Re: TARGET_STRING problem on ppc

From: Aldy Hernandez <aldyh at redhat dot com>
To: David Edelsohn <dje at watson dot ibm dot com>
Cc: GCC Mailinglist <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>, Geoff Keating <geoffk at geoffk dot org>
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 13:17:00 -0800
Subject: Re: TARGET_STRING problem on ppc

On Tuesday, March 11, 2003, at 12:49 PM, David Edelsohn wrote:

Aldy Hernandez writes:
Aldy> The e500 doesn't have string load/store instructions (though it does Aldy> have load/store multiple instructions). Before I kludge a special case Aldy> for the e500, is there a reason why MASK_STRING is set regardless of if Aldy> the CPU has that capability?
	Because the string instructions are not optional on PowerPC.  The
e500 is looking less and less like a PowerPC processor.  If you want to
disable setting it automatically it for e500, go ahead.

Crap crap. Ok, my apologies to both you and Geoff, but a kludge is coming up...

Aldy (who didn't design the chip)

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