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Re: egcs-1.1 status
- To: Bernd Schmidt <crux at pool dot informatik dot rwth-aachen dot de>
- Subject: Re: egcs-1.1 status
- From: Jeffrey A Law <law at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1998 10:51:01 -0600
- cc: Michael Hayes <michaelh at ongaonga dot chch dot cri dot nz>, egcs at cygnus dot com
- Reply-To: law at cygnus dot com
In message <Pine.SOL.3.90.980825152004.2281E-100000@matlock.informatik.rwth-aachen.de>you write:
> > Probably the first thing to do is get us an updated patch. Don't forget
> > to include a ChangeLog entry (I didn't find one in the patch you sent
> > just over a year ago).
>
> I just sent an updated version to egcs-patches. I'd like to ask people who
> are interested to check it out and to test it. It works reasonably well on
> the i386, but I can't test it on other machines, so feedback is very much
> appreciated.
Thanks. Nick has mentioned looking at it as a possible solution to some
arm port problems. I may also spend some time looking at it to deal
with some MIPS issues in the near future.
I'll go ahead and state that the fundamental concepts seem right:
Accurately track lifetimes
Spill locally instead of globally, updating lifetimes as needed.
Get rid of special handling of small register classes and such.
jeff