reload vs adds with clobbers
Richard Kenner
kenner@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu
Fri May 30 22:44:00 GMT 2003
> What's "right"? If an addition needs a scratch register (it was said
> that it had a CLOBBER), the only way to produce that is via the secondary
> reloads. The approach above sounds exactly correct.
It needs to clobber the carry, nothing else. But I see your point.
For those who might not, the "carry" here is a "scratch register"
since there could well be code that depends on it being preserved
across that insn.
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