rtl generation & predicates
Joern Rennecke
amylaar@cambridge.redhat.com
Fri Feb 23 11:00:00 GMT 2001
> it's not that i confused between a predicate and a constraint. but the
> INSN_CODE field of an insn that appears at the filename.rtl dump has a
> value -1, which means, acc to the documentation (section: RTL
> Representation, subsection: Insns):
>
> INSN_CODE (i)
> An integer that says which pattern in the machine description
> matches this insn, or -1 if the matching has not yet been attempted.
>
> as i assumed the only use of predicates is during matching, predicates
> shud not have any role to play during RTL generation.
Predicates are used during rtl generation in general. However, they
are not applied when you use the gen_* function for the insn.
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