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Re: PTR-PLUS merge into the mainline
Hi,
On Thu, 5 Jul 2007, Richard Guenther wrote:
> > How should this be optimized within the context of your canonicalization?
>
> For example by making fold_plusminus_mult_expr do what its comment
> suggest, "No identical multiplicands; see if we can find a common
> power-of-two factor ..."
>
> Can you try the following and see if it helps m68k?
The problem isn't specific to m68k, it's a problem for i386 and probably
others as well.
The patch is unfortunately no improvement, the problem is the canonical
form for addresses is (p * c) + o, which directly conflicts with yours.
bye, Roman