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Re: POINTER_PLUS branch status?

On Wed, 2007-05-30 at 17:53 -0700, Andrew Pinski wrote:
> On 5/30/07, Jeffrey Law <law@redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2007-05-29 at 16:13 -0700, Andrew Pinski wrote:
> > > The next step is to see if that patch is no longer needed for hppa
> > > (well and fixing the hppa back-end).
> > I would expect you can kill that patch; I don't think you can "fix"
> > the PA backend because RTL passes can muck this stuff up pretty
> > badly (even if you have a solid definition of what REG_POINTER
> > really means -- see the archives from the late 1990s and early 2000s)
> 
> What I had meant by fixing the PA back-end was for Pointer Plus.
> Changes are needed in reloc_needed and hppa_gimplify_va_arg_expr and
> not fixing the use of REG_POINTER :)  Sorry if I was not clear there.
Ah.  OK.

Jeff
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