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Re: alpha haifa regression
- To: law at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: alpha haifa regression
- From: Joern Rennecke <amylaar at cygnus dot co dot uk>
- Date: Tue, 7 Oct 1997 22:46:53 +0100 (BST)
- Cc: amylaar at cygnus dot co dot uk, wilson at cygnus dot com, rth at cygnus dot com, egcs at cygnus dot com
> > But for ports where the arguments are set up with __builtin_saveregs -
> > expanded from va_start - this would require two blockage insns - one
> > in front and one at the end - which could end up in an advanced position
> > in the function too.
> No. You only need once since the prologue itself won't load/store in
> the same area as the varargs flushback. And if there is some el-bizzaro
> target that does, then emit two blockages. No big deal.
For __builtin_saveregs, we are talking about a stack slot, not a
designated varargs flushback area.
And in front of va_start, any C code might be placed. Hence, we may not
make any assumptions that only the prologue is in front.