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Re: Your change to function.c



  In message <19981005000420.A13018@dot.cygnus.com>you write:
  > On Mon, Oct 05, 1998 at 12:59:56AM -0600, Jeffrey A Law wrote:
  > >   > 	* combine.c (expand_field_assignment): Don't do bitwise operati
  > ons
  > >   > 	on MODE_FLOAT; pun to MODE_INT if possible.
  > > Shouldn't we have avoided this long before we got to combine?
  > 
  > Combine just stripped all of the subregging that we had had in place.
But should we have had subregs of those float things in the first place?

Remember, not all subregging is safe, particularly when dealing with floating
point modes.

jeff


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