Re: POINTER_PLUS branch status?

["Andrew Pinski" <pinskia at gmail dot com>]

On 5/29/07, Jeffrey Law <law@redhat.com> wrote:
> I haven't followed PTR_PLUS development at all -- what specifically
> spurred you to hack on this Andrew?

For spu-elf, good alignment information is needed for each load/store
as each load/store is only done on 128bit alignment.  Since we lose a
lot of alignment in 4.0 after
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2004-06/msg00020.html
Which actually mention you were working on this before (but it looks
it was dropped by you).

The next step is to see if that patch is no longer needed for hppa
(well and fixing the hppa back-end).
And this improvement alignment information should improve the code
size for spu-elf (which is important to me as we are only playing with
256k of memory).

Thanks,
Andrew Pinski