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Re: What to do with new-ra for GCC 4.0
Daniel Berlin <dberlin@dberlin.org> writes:
> On Sun, 2 Jan 2005, Paul Brook wrote:
>
> > On Sunday 02 January 2005 13:57, Björn Haase wrote:
> >> concerning 'it's not like anyone will miss it' :
> >>
> >> For the avr target, new-ra used to be *extremely* useful. There have been
> >> discussions about the -fnew-ra issue. Unfortunately not on this list but on
> >> some of the specialized lists for the avr targets, iirc. Maybe we should
> >> cross post summaries of our discussions also at this list.?
> >
> > I don't think anyone is disagreeing that gcc needs a new register allocator
> > The suggestion is that the "new-ra" on mainline is sufficiently broken that
> > it's better to rip it out and either start again or fix it on a branch than
> > leave it to bitrot and get in the way on mainline.
>
> Bingo.
> Heck, i helped write it and i agree.
> new-ra has failed, long live a new new-ra
I'm agree.
New-ra from mainline has failed (or just broken).
The new-regalloc branch significantly better.
Denis.