nightmares with biased stack pointers

David S. Miller davem@jenolan.rutgers.edu
Tue Sep 16 07:38:00 GMT 1997


   From: Joern Rennecke <amylaar@cygnus.co.uk>
   Date: Tue, 16 Sep 1997 14:00:48 +0100 (BST)

   > Or do the elimination macros handle all of this transparently (or
   > can be made to do so)?

   No, you have to define GO_IF_LEGITIMATE_ADDRESS to handle this
   correctly.  If you have LEGITIMIZE_ADDRESS, that macro might need
   adjustments too.

Oh I see, so you teach those macros to check if a stack relative
offset is "in range" and if not, tell the caller to generate a reload,
right?

Later,
David "Sparc" Miller
davem@caip.rutgers.edu



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