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Re: Your patch to alpha.md causes bootstrap failure
- To: Richard Kenner <kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu>
- Subject: Re: Your patch to alpha.md causes bootstrap failure
- From: Richard Henderson <rth at redhat dot com>
- Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 10:17:11 -0700
- Cc: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- References: <10110191102.AA22743@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu>
On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 07:02:08AM -0400, Richard Kenner wrote:
> Register 27 is not fixed. Nevertheless, it's probably OK to clobber
> it without mentioning it in the RTL, but I thought I'd raise the issue
> in case it isn't.
It is because this is a tail call. We won't be returning
to this function.
r~