[PATCH] Promoted variable SUBREG optimizations

Richard Henderson rth@redhat.com
Tue Aug 12 16:13:00 GMT 2003


On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 09:29:59PM -0600, Roger Sayle wrote:
> Could you explain what goes wrong above?

I just said -- two alternatives don't sign extend the result.

> The comments in rtl.h seem
> to imply that an extended subreg can only be used as a LHS, when the
> required extension gets performed.  [But that might not be relevant].

You mean RHS?  If that's true, that might be correct.  I would like
to see where that LHS DImode is initialized before I believe it.

> I take it that you're happy with the dojump.c
> hunk of the patch...

I didn't read it separately, sorry.


r~



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