CDImode in reg

Aurelien Buhrig aurelien.buhrig.gcc@gmail.com
Tue Oct 4 17:00:00 GMT 2011


>> So it should be skipped and the ICE is the normal behavior for such
>> irrelevant test cases ?
>
> Personally, I don't really think an ICE is ever an acceptable result
> from the compiler.  However, there are practical considerations.  Nobody
> is ever going to write code like that for your processor.  If gets an
> ICE, no real programmer is ever going to notice.  And if it didn't get
> an ICE it would get an error instead.  So it's really up to you how much
> effort you want to put in to generating a proper error message rather
> than an ICE.

I agree. BTW, I wonder how I could handle such an ICE from my backend
if I wanted to.

Thanks
Aurélien



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