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Re: Different multiply operator for pointers and integers
- From: Richard Henderson <rth at redhat dot com>
- To: Dave Korn <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>
- Cc: "'Richard Earnshaw'" <rearnsha at gcc dot gnu dot org>, "'Laura Tosoratto'" <Laura dot Tosoratto at roma1 dot infn dot it>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, "'Alessandro Lonardo'" <alessandro dot lonardo at roma1 dot infn dot it>
- Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 10:59:37 -0800
- Subject: Re: Different multiply operator for pointers and integers
- References: <20041216181351.GA12362@redhat.com> <NUTMEGt4cwqqPxJSw9d00000809@NUTMEG.CAM.ARTIMI.COM>
On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 06:29:22PM -0000, Dave Korn wrote:
> Sorry, I don't quite get the wording here; I can't tell exactly what is the
> referent of "that" in the above sentence. I'm not sure if you mean
>
> 1) If it is true that registers that hold pointers can only be used
> for pointers and not integers, there's absolutely....
This one.
> Hmm, but wouldn't the potential workaround of defining Pmode to some mode
> (other than SImode) that is not used by the machine ...
No. The problems start in the front end.
r~