64-bit PowerPC code quality regression
Richard Henderson
rth@redhat.com
Sat Sep 8 11:43:00 GMT 2001
On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 09:49:52PM -0400, David Edelsohn wrote:
> Yes, I know the splitter can match. I mentioned that in my
> original note. What I don't understand is why GCC is applying the
> splitter when it already has a match.
You mean an insn match? Because they're completely separate
operations. Because in addition to splitting "invalid" insns,
define_split is used for lowering code by splitting compound
patterns into their constituant parts.
r~
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