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Re: New trunk breakage on mips-sgi-irix6.2 stage1 compiling libgcc2
On May 6, 2001, Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com> wrote:
> But why doesn't this hunk:
> - copy_to_mode_reg (DImode, GEN_INT (BITMASK_HIGH)),
> + copy_to_mode_reg (DImode,
> + GEN_INT (BITMASK_HIGH)),
> need the trunc_int_for_mode treatment?
Because BITMASK_HIGH is only 32-bits wide, and it's being stored in a
DImode register, so there's no need for sign-extension. In fact, it's
zero-extended, which is (or at least seems to be) the intent.
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