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Re: Subregs and objects with holes (new patch)

From: David Edelsohn <dje at watson dot ibm dot com>
To: "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
Cc: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org, Roger Sayle <roger at eyesopen dot com>
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2006 09:06:36 -0500
Subject: Re: Subregs and objects with holes (new patch)
References: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0611231946120.14939@digraph.polyomino.org.uk> <200611240412.kAO4CWV35306@makai.watson.ibm.com> <Pine.LNX.4.64.0611241337260.21924@digraph.polyomino.org.uk>

>>>>> Joseph S Myers writes:

>> Why "mode != SCmode" ?

Joseph> Because you said on IRC that SCmode should take two registers, and if it 
Joseph> were treated like DFmode (of the same size) it would take one.

	I meant that it should be passed in two registers, just like
SCmode on PowerPC with FPRs.  If this test were required for SCmode on
E500, it would be required for SCmode on classic PowerPC.

David

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