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Re: Some syntactic sugar for machine descriptions

To: Zack Weinberg <zackw at Stanford dot EDU>
Subject: Re: Some syntactic sugar for machine descriptions
From: Richard Henderson <rth at redhat dot com>
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 15:12:35 -0700
Cc: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
References: <20010626140657.B14340@redhat.com> <20010626150948.J2274@stanford.edu>

On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 03:09:48PM -0700, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> Another possibility occurred to me: teach genoutput that if the first
> character of the output template of a define_insn is a '{' that means
> the same thing as if it's an '*'.  But I think that might cause
> problems with alternative assembly syntaxes.

Definitely it would.

> Maybe if the first two characters are '{' and white space... ?

Um... I'm not especially pleased about that notion...


r~

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