egcs-1.1 status

Michael Hayes michaelh@ongaonga.chch.cri.nz
Sat Aug 22 17:48:00 GMT 1998


Jeffrey A Law writes:

 > Yup pretty much rewriting reload.  It also bleeds into other optimization
 > passes like combine, jump, etc.

I gather these other passes just use SMALL_REGISTER_CLASSSES to ensure
that explicitly mentioned hard registers only have a short lifetime?
Unfortunately, I think SMALL_REGISTER_CLASSES gets sometimes used to
denote that there are only few registers available which is not the
case in general.






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