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Re: PR 6394
- From: Peter Barada <pbarada at mail dot wm dot sps dot mot dot com>
- To: law at redhat dot com
- Cc: dave at hiauly1 dot hia dot nrc dot ca, dje at watson dot ibm dot com, geoffk at geoffk dot org, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Wed, 1 May 2002 10:17:15 -0400
- Subject: Re: PR 6394
- References: <32410.1020217695@porcupine.cygnus.com>
>There are days I *really* wish our methods for recognizing a valid
>address had more context (load vs store, load destination register
>type, store source register type, etc). We play far too many
>unpleasant games in the PA backend to recognize the asymmetric
>addressing modes available on the PA.
Its not limited to the PA. The m68k and ColdFire have these problems
as well.
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