SMALL_REGISTER_CLASSES
Jeffrey A Law
law@cygnus.com
Tue Jan 27 09:00:00 GMT 1998
In message < 9801262039.AA35348@rios1.watson.ibm.com >you write:
> The MD file can clobber a match_scratch of the single register
> class but asm statements do not appear to be able to express the same
> thing. Geoff Keating and I were wondering if clobbering a specific
> register in a class containing only that register should not automatically
> be converted into a match_scratch of that register class? Is there any
> reason this is not done or cannot be done? This or something similar
> would seem to solve the problem and prevent the GCC spill error.
Interesting. I can't think of a reason why this couldn't be done, and it
would certainly help (but not completely solve) these problems.
jeff
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