egcs-1.1 status

[Toon Moene]

Bernd wrote:

  > About a year ago I submitted a patch which tries to do exactly  
what you are
  > proposing:
  >  * track which pseudos live in which hard registers for every  
insn during
  >    reload
  >  * Using this information, compute correctly which hard  
registers are safe
  >    to use as spill registers
  >  * spill single pseudos to free hard registers locally instead  
of spilling
  >    all pseudos allocated to a hard register that has been  
selected as spill
  >    register.
  >
  > The patch generated a lot better code on the x86, and I believe  
it fixed th e
  > regparm problems.  I've asked about its status a few times, but  
I've never
  > heard back from anyone, so I can only assume no one ever looked  
at it.

Whack - I thought I never heard anything about it anymore because  
someone had detected a giant loophole in it and didn't bother to  
tell the list about it ...

Jeff wrote:

>  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).

As far as I can see it includes a ChangeLog entry (about 60 lines  
of it ;-)

See http://www.cygnus.com/ml/egcs/1997-Aug/0075.html

(Yes, that's nineteen ninety SEVEN).

HTH,
Toon.