Question about GO_IF_LEGITIMIZE_ADDRESS

David Edelsohn dje@watson.ibm.com
Tue Feb 19 12:54:00 GMT 2002


>>>>> Peter Barada writes:

Peter> Perhaps its about time that a way existed to tell reload what to do.

Peter> Since we have 'm', 'o', 'p' that are special to reload, there should
Peter> be another one that indicates that reload should just pull the address
Peter> of the operand into a register to make it register indirect.  This
Peter> reload method would work for most(if not all) of the chips that gcc
Peter> currently supports. 

Peter> Any suggestions for which character to use for this new
Peter> constraint(perhaps '@')?

	GCC already has 'a'.  Is that what you mean?

David



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