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Re: New development branch: ia64-fp-model-branch
- From: Richard Henderson <rth at redhat dot com>
- To: Bradley Lucier <lucier at math dot purdue dot edu>
- Cc: zack at codesourcery dot com, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2004 13:32:28 -0800
- Subject: Re: New development branch: ia64-fp-model-branch
- References: <D041F030-2E10-11D9-8D20-003065BA681E@math.purdue.edu>
On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 10:22:53PM -0500, Bradley Lucier wrote:
> I glanced at the design document; it seems that many of these changes
> could also apply to getting an accurate back-end model of x86
> floating-point arithmetic. Is this part of your goal?
Many of them can, yes. But the biggest hurdle there is convincing
reload to spill values in XFmode.
r~