rs6000: PREFERRED_RELOAD_CLASS
David Edelsohn
dje@watson.ibm.com
Fri Jul 21 12:13:00 GMT 2000
>>>>> Geoff Keating writes:
Geoff> Anyway, we still don't want to be performing memory copies using FPRs.
Geoff> The latency makes it faster to do the copy using GPRs.
This is not always the case and one may want the bandwidth over
the latency. I do not think that making this change so cavalierly is
wise.
Also, I believe that some parts of the PowerPC port make decisions
based on moving 8 byte small structures in FPRs. I am not sure how
HARD_REGNO_OK versus PREFFERED_RELOAD_CLASS interact to allow or prevent
that after your change. I am very concerned about this change and the
possibility that it will have unintended negative consequences.
David
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