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Re: Indirect memory addresses vs. lra

On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 06:38:30PM +0200, Richard Biener wrote:

   Couldn't we spill the frame pointer? Basically we should be able to
   compute the first address into a reg, spill that, do the second
   (both could require the frame pointer), spill the frame pointer,
   reload the first computed address from the stack, execute the insn
   and then reload the frame pointer. 
     
     Maybe the frame pointer can also be implemented 'virually' in an index register that you keep updated so that sp + reg
     Is the FP. Or frame accesses can use a  Stack slot as FP and the indirect memory 
     Addressing... (is there an indirect lea?)

Yes.  lea x, [4,x] is a valid instruction.

J'

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