vector register allocation

[Ian Lance Taylor]

BLUE 3TOO <blue_3too@hotmail.com> writes:

>     Can anybody explain how the register allocation is handled in GCC?
>     Is it done together with the general register allocation? or GCC
>     has a separate phase to handle them separately?

There is no separate vector register allocator.  All classes of
registers are allocated using the same register allocator.  In current
GCC we use IRA by Vladimir Makarov.

Ian