Tremendous increase in compile times for 3.4.1 with -mcpu=G5
David Edelsohn
dje@watson.ibm.com
Sat Aug 14 20:47:00 GMT 2004
>>>>> Bradley Lucier writes:
Brad> I've been trying to digest this. Is this a problem that gcc has with
Brad> 64-bit ppc architecture, i.e., one that will also show up on aix and
Brad> linux64?
-mcpu=G5 is not a pure 64-bit PowerPC mode, it is a mixed mode:
64-bit computation within a function, but 32-bit ABI. The conversion back
and forth at function boundaries causes the register allocator fits.
David
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