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Re: question regarding asm()
- To: Jeffrey A Law <law at cygnus dot com>
- Subject: Re: question regarding asm()
- From: Bernd Schmidt <crux at Pool dot Informatik dot RWTH-Aachen dot DE>
- Date: Fri, 17 Oct 1997 10:22:04 +0200 (MET DST)
- cc: Richard Henderson <rth at cygnus dot com>, Marc Lehmann <pcg at goof dot com>, egcs at cygnus dot com
> Yup. I wouldn't be suprised if this ends up being similar to the problems
> with passing args in registers for SMALL_REGISTER_CLASS machines.
I'd like to mention here that the reload patch I posted here a few months ago
does not only cause better code to be generated on the x86, it should also
solve these problems by taking hard register lifetimes into account and only
using free hard regs for reloads.
Bernd