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Re: RFA: ARM DFA pipeline description
Hi Gerald
> Anyway, I believe we should also mention not so major changes (even
> if in the long run we may want to differ between major stuff like
> the new parser and this kind), so apart from the
> gcc-3.4/changes.html change, also a patch for the main page seems
> okay.
How do these patches look? Okay to commit?
Index: index.html
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RCS file: /cvs/gcc/wwwdocs/htdocs/index.html,v
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diff -u -r1.376 index.html
--- index.html 11 Jun 2003 15:02:36 -0000 1.376
+++ index.html 23 Jun 2003 06:51:46 -0000
@@ -82,6 +82,16 @@
<dl>
+<dt><b>June 23, 2003</b><dt>
+<dd>
+Ben Elliston of Wasabi Systems, Inc. has converted the existing ARM
+processor pipeline description to the new <a
+href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gccint/Processor-pipeline-description.html#Process\
or%20pipeline%20description">DFA
+pipeline description model</a>. There is not much change in code
+performance, but the description is now easier to understand and
+modify. It will be part of the GCC 3.4 release.
+</dd>
+
<dt><b>May 27, 2003</b></dt>
<dd>
Proceedings and photographs of participants are available for the First
Index: gcc-3.4/changes.html
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RCS file: /cvs/gcc/wwwdocs/htdocs/gcc-3.4/changes.html,v
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diff -u -r1.28 changes.html
--- gcc-3.4/changes.html 19 Jun 2003 11:12:43 -0000 1.28
+++ gcc-3.4/changes.html 23 Jun 2003 06:51:46 -0000
@@ -93,6 +93,9 @@
<li>A new ARM target has been added: <code>arm-wince-pe</code>. This is
similar to the arm-pe target, but it defaults to using the APCS32
ABI.</li>
+
+ <li>The existing ARM pipeline description has been converted to
+ the use the DFA processor pipeline model.</li>
<li>The x86 back end has had some noticeable work done to it.
<ul>
@@ -105,6 +108,7 @@
processor pipeline description.</li>
<li>Further small performance improvements.</li>
</ul></li>
+
<li>Support for the SH2E processor has been added to the SH port.
Enabled at run time with the <code>-m2e</code> command line
switch, or at configure time by specifying sh2e as the machine