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Re: what is the meaning of '*'?

From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej at wasabisystems dot com>
To: "Gabriele Caracausi" <gabriele at caracausi dot it>
Cc: "Gcc ML" <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 08:18:08 -0800
Subject: Re: what is the meaning of '*'?

On Sunday, March 30, 2003, at 02:05 PM, Gabriele Caracausi wrote:

I'm studying GCC portings and in some architecture I've found "*addqi3"
after an "addqi3" declaration... what is the meaning of '*'???

This is documented in the md file part of the internals manual. Basically, the * in front of the pattern name causes the pattern to be "nameless" for all purposes except for debugging, i.e. you will be able to identify the pattern in RTL dumps.

-- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej at wasabisystems dot com>

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