[wwwdocs] Round 1 of cleaning up "old PROBLEMS"

[Andreas Schwab]

Zack Weinberg <zack@codesourcery.com> writes:

>> with current mainline on m68k at -O2 yields the following, which looks
>> exactly like what this entry is about:
>>
>> f:
>>         link.w %fp,#0
>>         move.l 8(%fp),%a0
>>         move.l (%a0),%a1
>>         move.l 4(%a0),%a0
>>         clr.b (%a0,%a1.l)
>>         unlk %fp
>>         rts
>
> Can you express an opinion on whether the suggested variant code (in
> this notation,
>
> f:
>         link.w %fp,#0
>         move.l 8(%fp),%a0
>         add.l 4(%a0),%a0
>         clr.b (%a0)
>         unlk %fp
>         rts

The correct alternative would be this:

f:
        link.w %fp,#0
        move.l 8(%fp),%a0
        move.l (%a0),%a1
        add.l 4(%a0),%a1
        clr.b (%a1)
        unlk %fp
        rts

This sequence is smaller than the one generated by gcc, and faster on all
models but the mc68060.

Andreas.

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