[PATCH][AArch64] Remove aarch64_frame_pointer_required
Wilco Dijkstra
Wilco.Dijkstra@arm.com
Thu Mar 1 20:21:00 GMT 2018
Richard Sandiford wrote:
> But there's the third question of whether the frame pointer is available
> for general allocation. By removing frame_pointer_required, we're saying
> that the frame pointer is always available for general use.
Unlike on ARM/Thumb-2, the frame pointer is unfortunately never available for
general allocation on AArch64 - so we cannot use it for something actually useful.
A while back there were mid-end patches proposed to allow general allocation
of FP but those weren't accepted.
Wilco
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