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From: Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@codesourcery.com>
To: Bernd Schmidt <bernds@codesourcery.com>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@redhat.com>,
	Andrew Stubbs <ams@codesourcery.com>,
	gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] SH-2A FDPIC: New pattern: use_initial_val
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 19:42:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100819193342.GA26910@caradoc.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C6D7E18.9050009@codesourcery.com>

On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 08:55:20PM +0200, Bernd Schmidt wrote:
> For FD-PIC, the incoming PIC reg is loaded into a pseudo with the
> initial values machinery.  The problem occurs if during expand we
> already had something that required the PIC register, so the pseudo was
> set up, but all the uses (and hence the initializing insn) were
> optimized away.  So there really isn't anywhere to put it anymore in
> this case.

FWIW, I once tried to make the MIPS pic base into a pseudo, and
encountered this same problem - I eventually gave up, but maybe it can
be done the same way.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery

  reply	other threads:[~2010-08-19 19:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-19 16:12 Andrew Stubbs
2010-08-19 18:28 ` Richard Henderson
2010-08-19 18:54   ` Bernd Schmidt
2010-08-19 18:55     ` Richard Henderson
2010-08-19 19:34       ` Bernd Schmidt
2010-08-19 19:42         ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
2010-08-19 19:55           ` Richard Henderson
2010-08-19 19:51         ` Richard Henderson

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