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Re: MIPS patch for execute/921117-1.c
On Tue, 2002-10-22 at 06:51, Richard Sandiford wrote:
> Richard Sandiford <rsandifo@redhat.com> writes:
> > * config/mips/mips.md (extv, extzv, insv): Set size of referenced
> > memory after adjusting to BLKmode.
>
> Agh, sorry, just realised there's a bit/byte mismatch here.
>
> Which would best? A fixed version of this patch or one that
> uses SImode and DImode for unaligned memory accesses?
> (Or something else entirely...)
I can't see a reason why we're moving things in BLKmode as opposed to
SI/DImode. Anyone with history on these patterns available to comment?
-eric
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