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Re: GCC PowerPC usage of LR and CTR
- To: laire at t-online dot de (Ralph Schmidt)
- Subject: Re: GCC PowerPC usage of LR and CTR
- From: David Edelsohn <dje at watson dot ibm dot com>
- Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2001 11:02:29 -0500
- cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
>>>>> Ralph Schmidt writes:
Ralph> On comp.arch is some gcc relevant discussion about the new G4e/7450
Ralph> going on. As the chip has now a return stack it makes a real difference
Ralph> if compilers follow the ppc standards about the usage of ctr and lr.
Ralph> As i still only use 2.95.3 i can't know if the issue was already
Ralph> fixed inside gcc's powerpc module but if not...now would be the
Ralph> time to do it.
This already is addressed in gcc-3.0.
David