reload question

[Paolo Bonzini]

Pat Haugen wrote:
> Is this being done on purpose (going on assumption that operands are
> commutative), such as to allow more opportunities for a successful
> allocation with reduced spill?

I think so, but reordering the "else if"s should improve the results.

> I've also seen the same situation come up during register renaming
> (regrename.c), but not too surprising since the code there says it's based
> off find_reloads_address_1() and is coded similarly.

... and likewise here.

Paolo