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Insn for direct increment of memory?
- From: Greg McGary <greg at mcgary dot org>
- To: gcc at gnu dot org
- Cc: greg at mcgary dot org
- Date: 24 Sep 2005 15:35:24 -0700
- Subject: Insn for direct increment of memory?
I'm working with a machine that has a memory-increment insn. It's a
network-processor performance hack that allows no-latency accumulation
of statistical counters. The insn sends the increment and address to
the memory controller which does the add, avoiding the usual
long-latency read-increment-write cycle. I would like to persuade GCC
to emit this insn. Maybe it could be done in the combiner? Do any
GCC ports have this feature?
Greg