patch: alpha haifa abort
David Edelsohn
dje@watson.ibm.com
Sun Jan 4 15:48:00 GMT 1998
>>>>> Jeffrey A Law writes:
Jeff> The "trick" is to define an intermediate pattern so that combine
Jeff> will do a 2/3 -> 1 to create the intermediate pattern. If that
Jeff> is successful combine will then try to combine the intermediate
Jeff> pattern with the 4th insn.
Doesn't the intermediate pattern need to be a valid instruction?
Mike and I went into this issue as well.
I also remember some complexities due to other GCC optimizations
of the RTL generated for the shift-or way of writing the code.
David
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