Re: Patch: IA64 inline integer division

[Richard Henderson <rth at redhat dot com>]

On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 08:24:36AM -0800, Steve Ellcey wrote:
> So I think we should forget about HFmode and create a way to for movsf &
> movdf to handle arbitrary constants.  I'm not sure how to do this yet
> but it seems like it should be possible.

You might look at ppc or i386 which allow some fp constants in 
integer registers.  But when doing post-reload splitting you'll
still want to be able to figure out when you can do setf.exp
instead of setf.s.  I don't know that you'll necessarily be
saving yourself any effort.


r~