ppc64 floating point usage [was Re: PPC64 Compiler bug !!]

David Edelsohn dje@watson.ibm.com
Fri Jun 13 20:38:00 GMT 2003


>>>>> Jakub Jelinek writes:

Jakub> I guess best would be if GCC could dynamically switch the reg alloc orders
Jakub> based on whether FPRs will be used anyway or whether current function is
Jakub> pure integer code.

	Yes.  The difficulty is determining whether a function is pure
integer code.  Even more, one does not want to simply change the alloc
order but mark FPRs as fixed for pure integer code, which is what
-msoft-float does.

David



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