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Re: ARM constant folding bug?

From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at false dot org>
To: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2007 12:46:59 -0400
Subject: Re: ARM constant folding bug?
References: <1186157355.23564.84.camel@shap.om-md.eros-os.com> <041b01c7d5ea$c518aa20$2e08a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM>

On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 05:24:28PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
>   I'm a bit surprised too.  But it occurs to me that the ARM, unlike the i386
> and m68k, is bi-endian.  Perhaps you can't actually know which mode it's
> running in at compile time and /have/ to test it at runtime?

No.  You can't generate code in general that works on both!

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery

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