Another PA question - possible bug?

[Jeffrey A Law]

  In message < 19990310175357.A21098@cygnus.com >you write:
  > On Wed, Mar 10, 1999 at 11:58:46AM -0700, Jeffrey A Law wrote:
  > >   > (define_insn ""
  > >   >   [(set (match_operand:DF 0 "register_operand" "=f")
  > >   > 	(float:DF (match_operand:SI 1 "const_int_operand" "m")))]
  > >
  > > Not exactly.
  > 
  > Actually, Jeff, why does this pattern exist?  Under no conditions
  > should we be doing something like this.  We should instead convert
  > the value to DFmode at compile time and drop _that_ into memory.
It's historical.  Very historical.  I think it is actually derived from the
sparc port.


jeff