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Re: [GCC 3.0] Bad regression, binary size
- To: Marc dot Espie at liafa dot jussieu dot fr, torvalds at transmeta dot com
- Subject: Re: [GCC 3.0] Bad regression, binary size
- From: dewar at gnat dot com
- Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2001 13:13:04 -0400 (EDT)
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
<<I would argue that floating point is a lot more special than kernels are.
I bet the code generation and optimization issues for kernels tend to be
closer to most programs than FP code tends to be. Which is why I think it
is the FP code that should be special-cased, not the kernel.
>>
But it is not just floating-point, it is any 8 or 16 byte object, such
as a 64-bit integer, or a struct with two 32-bit fields.