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Re: [RFC] type promotion pass
- From: Segher Boessenkool <segher at kernel dot crashing dot org>
- To: Michael Clark <michaeljclark at mac dot com>
- Cc: Prathamesh Kulkarni <prathamesh dot kulkarni at linaro dot org>, David Edelsohn <dje dot gcc at gmail dot com>, "William J. Schmidt" <wschmidt at linux dot vnet dot ibm dot com>, Kugan <kugan dot vivekanandarajah at linaro dot org>, Richard Biener <rguenther at suse dot de>, "gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org" <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2017 15:59:43 -0500
- Subject: Re: [RFC] type promotion pass
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Hi!
On Sat, Sep 16, 2017 at 08:47:03AM +1200, Michael Clark wrote:
> RISC-V defines promote_mode on RV64 to promote SImode to signed DImode subregisters. I did an experiment on RISC-V to not promote SImode to DImode and it improved codegen for many of my regression test cases, but unfortunately it breaks the RISC-V ABI.
It sounds like you should implement TARGET_PROMOTE_FUNCTION_MODE as well?
Segher