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Re: [PATCH] -fpic problems on PPC, a different approach
- To: Richard Henderson <rth at cygnus dot com>
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] -fpic problems on PPC, a different approach
- From: Jeffrey A Law <law at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Mon, 07 Jun 1999 16:30:10 -0600
- cc: Geoff Keating <geoffk at ozemail dot com dot au>, Franz dot Sirl at munich dot netsurf dot de, egcs-patches at egcs dot cygnus dot com
- Reply-To: law at cygnus dot com
In message <19990607140706.E6031@cygnus.com>you write:
> While I would love to see reload really know about the PIC register
> (where it is now, where it must be for calls, how to regenerate it
> instead of spilling if cost effective, when it will be needed by
> code generated by reload itself), it isn't going to happen for 2.95.
Agreed.
> The fixed register plan, for all it's faults, does have one thing
> going for it -- it's simple and very easy to see that things are
> Correct.
Agreed again.
jeff