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Re: How to clean up i386 machine description?
- To: Joern Rennecke <amylaar at cygnus dot co dot uk>
- Subject: Re: How to clean up i386 machine description?
- From: Jeffrey A Law <law at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 09:42:53 -0700
- cc: hubicka at horac dot ta dot jcu dot cz (Jan Hubicka), howell at cs dot stanford dot edu, rth at cygnus dot com, pcg at goof dot com, egcs at cygnus dot com
- Reply-To: law at cygnus dot com
In message <199811140644.GAA06668@phal.cygnus.co.uk>you write:
> During reload, one or more operands can be ill-formed. Only when reload
> is finished can we be confident that the operands are all fixed up.
> Hence, if we'd try to re-recognize an instruction during reload, this
> would likely fail.
Correct. This is normal during register elimination and possibly a few
other cases.
jeff