RFC: Using (set (if_then_else ...)) on IA64 for division instructions
Richard Henderson
rth@redhat.com
Wed Sep 29 18:10:00 GMT 2004
On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 09:07:25AM -0700, Steve Ellcey wrote:
> I have been looking at how we generate code to do division on IA64 to
> see if I could get it to be scheduled better. Currently IA64 generates
> a sequence of instructions using cond_exec, the problem with this is
> that cond_exec cannot be expanded until after reload and this results in
> the division instruction sequence being poorly scheduled.
I'm surprised you aren't getting decent results with flag_rename_registers.
> Are there any special problems with using if_then_else inside a set?
Nope.
r~
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