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From: Bill Schmidt <wschmidt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: GCC Patches <gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org>,
	David Edelsohn <dje.gcc@gmail.com>,
	       ebotcazou@adacore.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2, rs6000] Fix PR72827 (ada bootstrap failure)
Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2016 14:44:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <0D3A2BA2-6DF8-4690-B0A4-A71F0919A8FA@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160901143231.GB9816@gate.crashing.org>

On Sep 1, 2016, at 9:32 AM, Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 09:15:32PM -0500, Bill Schmidt wrote:
>> This patch (suggested by Michael Meissner) instead prevents the problem
>> by disallowing reg+reg addressing for TImode, allowing D-form addressing
>> to be used for the separate stores of the GPRs.  This is not an ideal
>> permanent solution, because it disallows reg+reg addressing not only for
>> TImode in GPRs, but also for TImode in VSRs.  Our intent is to work on a
>> solution to provide a scratch register via secondary reload, but this
>> may take some time.  Thus I'd like to submit this patch as a short-term
>> solution for the bootstrap problem until then.
>> 
>> I plan to do a performance evaluation of this patch for informational
>> purposes, but I don't expect much change, and the results won't affect
>> our choice to handle this properly in secondary reload.
>> 
>> Bootstrapped and tested on powerpc64le-unknown-linux-gnu with no
>> regressions, and the gnattools now build properly so that the ada
>> bootstrap succeeds.  Is this ok for trunk?
> 
> Yes please.  Thanks,

r239938, thanks!

Bill
> 
> 
> Segher
> 

      reply	other threads:[~2016-09-01 14:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-08-31  1:24 [PATCH, " Bill Schmidt
2016-08-31  6:20 ` Segher Boessenkool
2016-08-31  7:08   ` Eric Botcazou
2016-08-31  9:07     ` Segher Boessenkool
2016-09-06 21:31     ` Jeff Law
2016-09-06 23:02       ` Segher Boessenkool
2016-09-07  0:10         ` Jeff Law
2016-08-31 14:00   ` Bill Schmidt
2016-08-31 15:31     ` Eric Botcazou
2016-08-31 16:13       ` Bill Schmidt
2016-08-31 20:07     ` Bill Schmidt
2016-09-01  2:15   ` [PATCH v2, " Bill Schmidt
2016-09-01  7:21     ` Eric Botcazou
2016-09-01 14:32     ` Segher Boessenkool
2016-09-01 14:44       ` Bill Schmidt [this message]

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