egcs-980129, warning patches to alpha.c

Mike Stump mrs@wrs.com
Fri Feb 6 17:06:00 GMT 1998


> From: Mike Simons <msimons@saic1.com>
> To: ghazi@caip.rutgers.edu (Kaveh R. Ghazi)
> Date: Fri, 6 Feb 1998 03:04:18 -0500 (EST)
> Cc: egcs@cygnus.com

> I just glanced at your patch, couldn't we do this:
>   fprintf (file, "\tstq $26," HOST_WIDE_INT_PRINT_DEC "($%d)\n", 
>            reg_offset, sa_reg);

>   it is much more condensed, the compiler will merge the strings for us.  =)

Your assumption that the compiler will do this is wrong.  Some C
compilers don't do this, in the past, we avoided this type of thing.



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