[PATCH] PROMOTE_FOR_CALL_ONLY on sparc

Richard Henderson rth@cygnus.com
Wed Dec 8 01:13:00 GMT 1999


On Wed, Dec 08, 1999 at 04:11:44AM -0500, Richard Kenner wrote:
> Right.  The most common operations are addition and subtraction.

Actually, the thing that makes Sparc64 different from Alpha
and MIPS64 is the presence of a true 32-bit compare.  Because
of that, I would expect far far fewer sign extensions to be
needed for your average SImode variable.



r~


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