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Re: request for opinion on alternative operand/operatorclassification/promotion approach
- From: Paul Schlie <schlie at comcast dot net>
- To: <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 16:47:43 -0400
- Subject: Re: request for opinion on alternative operand/operatorclassification/promotion approach
Fair, will do shortly.
> From: Zack Weinberg <zack@codesourcery.com>
>> Paul Schlie <schlie@comcast.net> writes:
>> Please consider this a request for opinion on the possible benefits of
>> simplifying GCC's present front-end's operand and operation type/precision
>> determination logic in favor of leveraging the back-end's present rtl tree
>> matching/covering ability to more optimally identify and apply operand cast
>> promotions only if and as required by the target machine's instruction set
>> definition to enable more efficient target machine instruction specification
>> and code generation, by adopting a few reasonably simple conventions.
>
> I find your prose incomprehensible - I can't be certain even what
> problem you are trying to solve, never mind express an opinion on your
> proposed solution. Could you please restate your question in a more
> comprehensible fashion? Use shorter/less complicated sentences, less
> nesting of subclauses, fewer buzzwords?
>
> zw