cant_combine_insn_p hard_reg->reg moves
Jan Hubicka
jh@suse.cz
Wed Dec 26 04:13:00 GMT 2001
> On Tue, Dec 25, 2001 at 09:02:42PM -0500, David Edelsohn wrote:
> > Could cant_combine_insn_p test for hard regs with either REG_EQUIV
> > involving computations of ARG_POINTER_REGNUM or FUNCTION_VALUE_REGNO_P?
>
> No. IIRC, this was introduced specifically to cure problems with
> argument registers. x86 regparm is the biggest offender here.
>
> The only solutions are a new register allocator, or post-reload
> cleanup optimizations such as -fcprop-registers. Anything else
> risks keeping a hard register live too long.
BTW what is the situation of cprop-registers? Will it get enabled for 3.1
once the bugs are tracked down. Are the problems serisous.
Honza
>
>
> r~
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