Reload patch for PA call rewrite.
John David Anglin
dave@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca
Fri Oct 25 17:20:00 GMT 2002
> On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 07:53:24PM -0400, John David Anglin wrote:
> > Why do I need a spill lot for a fixed register?
>
> Because it's call-saved, and you have to save and restore it somewhere.
This is done in the prologue after reload along with all the other
call-saved registers. The frame size isn't determined until then.
We can't eliminate the arg pointer. This seems to work fine for
the elimination of the frame pointer.
Dave
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