[Bug rtl-optimization/64156] Subversion id 218266 breaks the big-endian 64-bit PowerPC build (wilco.dijkstra@arm.com's mod to ira-costs.c)
vmakarov at gcc dot gnu.org
gcc-bugzilla@gcc.gnu.org
Wed Dec 3 03:58:00 GMT 2014
https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=64156
--- Comment #4 from Vladimir Makarov <vmakarov at gcc dot gnu.org> ---
(In reply to Wilco from comment #3)
>
> Anyway it looks like this patch has triggered some complex allocation
> issues, so it seems best to revert it. I'll get someone to do that tomorrow
> unless someone else has already done it by then.
Yes, it is better to revert the patch, Wilco. The fixing a problem in reload
(and ppc uses reload by default) is very tricky. It can take long time (might
be weeks) to fix it even if you have a big expertise in reload pass. So there
is no real solution besides reverting the patch.
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