PPro and egcs

[Jeffrey A Law]

  In message < m0xRQKv-0004ecC@ocean.lucon.org >you write:
  > > Well, I've got my ppro running, and I've actually been able to trip this
  > > problem.  No clue why I couldn't get it to trip with my cross compiler.
  > > 
  > > It's a tough little nut to crack, largly because of reload's insistence
  > > on replacing regs with CONST_INTs when the register has a REG_EQUIV note.
  > > 
  > 
  > If you take a close look, eax is used for the return value of a
  > funtion. In that case, I don't gcc should even try to use eax as
  > spill register.
On the x86 the reload pass does try to use return registers and
any others it can find as spills -- the x86 is too register poor
to not use it.


jeff