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Re: m68k bootstrapping broken


Gunther Nikl <gni@gecko.de> writes:

> On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 07:32:54AM +0100, Bernardo Innocenti wrote:
>> Just an idea: m68k is the only cc0 target capable of an hosted bootstrap.
>
>   I wonder how hard it would be to change m68k into a non-cc0 port.

What would be the advantage in general?

>> Is it possible that middle-end changes have subtly broken cc0 targets
>> without anyone noticing except on the m68k?
>
>   Its surprising that suddenly CC bugs show up. This is already the
>   second time that not initializing CC is the reason for breakage of
>   m68k.

Due to unit-at-a-time there are more opportunities for optimisation.

Andreas.

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