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Re: MD representation of IA64 floating point operations
- From: Jim Wilson <wilson at specifixinc dot com>
- To: Steve Ellcey <sje at cup dot hp dot com>
- Cc: zack at codesourcery dot com, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, rth at twiddle dot net,Gary dot Tracy2 at hp dot com, Sverre dot Jarp at cern dot ch, Michal dot Kapalka at cern dot ch
- Date: 23 Jul 2004 17:05:50 -0700
- Subject: Re: MD representation of IA64 floating point operations
- References: <200407232343.QAA06800@hpsje.cup.hp.com>
On Fri, 2004-07-23 at 16:43, Steve Ellcey wrote:
> Hm, what do you think about generating a .md file instead of processing
> one? I notice that in config/h8300, h8300.md has: (include "mova.md"),
> and mova.md is generated by a shell script, genmova.sh. This avoids the
> C preprocessor and avoids the modeless issues.
It is certainly reasonable to try this. If gcc compile-time performance
isn't hurt by having lots of md file patterns, then this may end up
being one of the better choices.
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Jim Wilson, GNU Tools Support, http://www.SpecifixInc.com