cmpsi2 library calls?

Paul Koning paulkoning@comcast.net
Thu Oct 25 23:46:00 GMT 2018


In my target (pdp11) which has 16 bit words, I see some test suite failures because of unresolved references to __cmpsi2.  The strange thing is that most of the time 32 bit compares are expanded by GCC into a sequence of word compares and branches.

Why would GCC sometimes generate library calls for this?  Can I make it stop doing that by writing patterns (define_expand or define_insn) for cmpsi2?  That may be useful because I think I can generate better code, but still it's puzzling that the behavior is inconsistent.

	paul



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