This is for PR c/13133. Gcc saves and restores all call-saved registers around a call to setjmp. This is unnecessary, and is a performance regression from gcc-3.0 and earlier. This showed up on IA-64 as a libpthread performance problem, as some critical paths in libpthread use setjmp, and IA-64 has lots of registers that get saved and restored. This has also been reported as a problem for PowerPC with Altivec. See PR 12817. The code in question was originally added Feb 23, 1996 by Richard Kenner. He modified the builtin setjmp expander to emit a CONST_CALL_P NOTE_INSN_SETJMP note, and he added code to reload to mark all call saved registers as live when one of these notes was seen. On Nov 1, 1997, Jeff Law deleted the code in the buildint setjmp expander that was emitting the CONST_CALL_P NOTE_INSN_SETJMP note, but the code in reload remained. It now did nothing. A little bit later, the expander was modified to set current_function_has_nonlocal_label which gives the same effect as the reload code, but in a way that flow can understand. On Aug 7, 2001, Jan Hubicka checked in a patch that removed NOTE_INSN_SETJMP notes and replaced them with REG_SETJMP reg notes. When this change was made, the CONST_CALL_P test in the reload code was lost, and now the code was enabled for every setjmp call, which was not the intent of the code. The proper fix here is to just delete the long obsolete reload code for REG_SETJMP. This was tested with a ia64-linux bootstrap and make check. There were no regressions. This was also tested with the testcase in PR 13133. I realize this is a bit risky, since running the testsuite does not really test setjmp. So I am interested in hearing about any problems this might cause. I have checked in the attached patch for this problem. -- Jim Wilson, GNU Tools Support, http://www.SpecifixInc.com