This is the mail archive of the gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org mailing list for the GCC project.

Index Nav:	[Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav:	[Date Prev] [Date Next]	[Thread Prev] [Thread Next]
Other format:	[Raw text]

Re: [PATCH] PR35371 GCSE loses track of REG_POINTER attribute

From: Peter Bergner <bergner at vnet dot ibm dot com>
To: Richard Sandiford <rsandifo at nildram dot co dot uk>
Cc: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 12:58:45 -0600
Subject: Re: [PATCH] PR35371 GCSE loses track of REG_POINTER attribute
References: <20080225222624.GA26857@vervain.rchland.ibm.com> <87skzfzkvh.fsf@firetop.home>

On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 17:29 +0000, Richard Sandiford wrote:
> Minor suggestion, but maybe this could go in emit-rtl.c, under a more
> generic name?  Given the performance impact of losing pointer info,
> it would be nice to have a defined API for creating a register that's
> like another.

Having tracked a similar problem in another file, I was thinking along
the same lines.  I'm bad at names though.  Care to suggest a name for
the new function?

Peter

Follow-Ups:
- Re: [PATCH] PR35371 GCSE loses track of REG_POINTER attribute
  - From: Richard Sandiford
- Re: [PATCH] PR35371 GCSE loses track of REG_POINTER attribute
  - From: Jeff Law

References:
- [PATCH] PR35371 GCSE loses track of REG_POINTER attribute
  - From: Peter Bergner
- Re: [PATCH] PR35371 GCSE loses track of REG_POINTER attribute
  - From: Richard Sandiford

Index Nav:	[Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav:	[Date Prev] [Date Next]	[Thread Prev] [Thread Next]