c/859: sparc-specific pessimal code for simple loop

Richard Henderson rth@redhat.com
Tue Nov 21 23:21:00 GMT 2000


On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 11:02:36PM -0800, David S. Miller wrote:
> I remember there were some issues with var-args, which could make
> "long long" and other DF/DI mode values go into the stack only 4-byte
> aligned.  This case needed to be handled, and I am pretty sure this is
> where all the wacky constraint stuff comes from.

Seems to me that ought to have been handled with store_bit_field
and friends, which are how we deal with unaligned data coming from
the front end.

I'll ponder this a bit more.



r~


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