Combine four insns

Chris Lattner clattner@apple.com
Mon Aug 9 17:02:00 GMT 2010


On Aug 9, 2010, at 9:06 AM, Mark Mitchell wrote:

> Chris Lattner wrote:
> 
>> Is "throw in a param and let the distributors decide" really a great solution to issues like these?
> 
> Do you have a better one?

Yes, pick an answer.  Either one is better than a new param IMO.

> I see no inherent reason to expect that the right answer for small ARM
> microcontrollers is the same as for MIPS control-plane processors or x86
> server processors.

So make the setting be a target property?

> I'm all for setting things up so that they work well by default.  But,
> I'm skeptical that there's a "right answer" to this particular question.

It's even better to just rip out combine of course, but I understand that's not a short-term solution. :)

-Chris



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