[3.4-bib, Patch] rs6000 floating point multiply-add instructions
David Edelsohn
dje@watson.ibm.com
Mon Nov 18 21:51:00 GMT 2002
>>>>> Andrew Pinski writes:
> Since I was see some of the rs6000 floating point multiply-add
> instructions being used in the fsf version of the compiler but they
> were generated by the Apple compiler, I thought I would look to
> see what is going on. I saw that in the md file of Apple's version it
> contains more define_insn for the instructions so they could be
> matched with different ways of saying them.
Please go back and read the repeated discussions in the GCC
mailinglist archives that Apple's additional patterns are not the right
way to solve this problem. Not to mention, a number of the
transformations are mathematically unsafe and should not be applied by
default.
David
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