PPC failure bootstrap fix

Richard Sandiford rsandifo@redhat.com
Tue Sep 7 07:25:00 GMT 2004


Jan Hubicka <jh@suse.cz> writes:
> I am not sure who exactly is guilty for this failure but it looks safest to
> prevent these constructs from being wrapped by CONST (I would say that
> it should not be LEGITIMATE_CONSTANT_P at first places but there seems
> to be no such checks anywhere in most backends).

FWIW, this failure showed up on MIPS too, and MIPS's L_C_P _does_
reject (const (minus ...)).  The expression was therefore forced into
the constant pool and (not surprisingly) the assembler didn't like
that either.

Richard



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