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Re: What to do with new-ra for GCC 4.0
Hi,
On Tue, 4 Jan 2005, Steven Bosscher wrote:
> 2) The version on mainline finds itself overruled by reload too
> often. The fix on the new-regalloc branch is pre-reload, which
> is an excelent idea IMHO, except that pre-reload.c is just a
> stripped version of reload{,1}.c, which is exactly what new-ra
> was supposed to get rid of.
But unlike reload* it could be written in a saner way as it works just on
pseudos and hence has a little more freedom. Of course this would have
taken longer ;)
> Of course the worst problem is just bitrot. Even on the branch
> nothing has happened in a while. The last merge from mainline to
> the branch was on 2003-10-09, and the last checkin was 2004-04-02
> so you can pretty much say that branch is dead. The last merge
> from the branch to mainline was on 2002-07-15, which also isn't
> exactly yesterday.
I merged with mainline late last year, and it went fairly smooth, I just
never committed it :-|
Ciao,
Michael.