Re: new-ra code sizes on Hitachi H8

[Gary Van Sickle <tiberius at braemarinc dot com>]

> Hi Toshi,
>
> > The Hitachi H8 is a fairly difficult register-allocation situation -
> > only 8 general-purpose registers. So new-ra seems to be doing fairly
   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Well, to be overly precise, on the 300H and H8S series: 8 32-bit 
registers, which can be individually treated as 16 16-bit registers, and 
half of those can be individually treated as 16 8-bit registers.  Beats 
the x86 by a long ways anyway ;-).

> > well.  Only 4 testcases increased in size; the other 12 decreased in
> > size.
> This is impressive.  Maybe I should help Michael Matz by running
> testsuite and other things with -fnew-ra.  Thanks for reporting this.
> Also I am happy to see code size decreasing over the past few
> years. :-)
>
> Kazu Hirata
Probably not as happy as I am ;-).  I've been using gcc targeting 
Hitatchi H8, H8300H, and H8S micros for years now and its been a 
godsend.  I want to take this opportunity to thank everyone involved in 
the gcc project, and especially those working the Hitachi angles, and 
especially you Kazu, I've seen a lot of activity by you in recent 
months.  Know that your work is directly helping to improve the quality 
of life of people all over the globe.