egcs-1.1 status

[Jeffrey A Law]

  In message < Pine.SOL.3.90.980825152004.2281E-100000@matlock.informatik.rwth-aachen.de >you write:

  > > Probably the first thing to do is get us an updated patch.  Don't forget
  > > to include a ChangeLog entry (I didn't find one in the patch you sent
  > > just over a year ago).
  > 
  > I just sent an updated version to egcs-patches. I'd like to ask people who
  > are interested to check it out and to test it. It works reasonably well on
  > the i386, but I can't test it on other machines, so feedback is very much
  > appreciated.
Thanks.  Nick has mentioned looking at it as a possible solution to some
arm port problems.  I may also spend some time looking at it to deal
with some MIPS issues in the near future.

I'll go ahead and state that the fundamental concepts seem right:

  Accurately track lifetimes

  Spill locally instead of globally, updating lifetimes as needed.

  Get rid of special handling of small register classes and such.


jeff