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Re: Question on lower-subreg.c
On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 3:57 PM, Bin.Cheng <amker.cheng@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> I read code in lower-subreg.c and found GCC only split some of
> multi-word mode instructions, like load from memory into pseudo reg,
> etc. The related code is in find_decomposable_subregs.
>
> So for below example from PR56102:
>
> double g = 1.0;
> double func(int a, double d)
> {
> if (a > 0)
> return 0.0 + g;
> else
> return 2.0 + d;
> }
>
> compiling with:
> ./arm-none-eabi-gcc -mthumb -mcpu=cortex-m0 -Os test.c -S -o test.S
>
> If split is done for all DFmode insns, it will save us code size by
> sharing constant pool in program.
>
> My questions are:
> 1. Why don't split other multi-word insns?
> 2. Is it possible to do it in subreg2 pass, or in backend?
> I know little about lower-subreg.c, did I miss something important?
>
Sorry that I missed the point the subreg passes is only used to split
multi-word pseudo which appeared in SUBREG.
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Best Regards.