gcc.texi bug: reference to "stupid" allocator

David Mosberger davidm@hpl.hp.com
Fri Apr 27 14:25:00 GMT 2001


Jim Wilson explained to me that gcc3 no longer includes the "stupid"
register allocator and, for that reason, the "register" keyword is now
completely ignored as far as code-generation is concerned.  AFAIK,
this breaks existing code (such as "mhz", part of lmbench), so it
might be a good idea to document this.  Also, I found that "gcc.texi"
in the 3.0 pre-release still has one reference to the "stupid"
register allocator:

	$ fgrep -i stupid gcc.texi 
	the input file name.  If stupid register allocation is in use, this

This probably should be removed.

Thanks,

	--david



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