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From: Bernd Schmidt <bschmidt@redhat.com>
To: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>,
	       Richard Biener <richard.guenther@gmail.com>
Cc: Michael Meissner <meissner@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	       GCC Patches <gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org>,
	       David Edelsohn <dje.gcc@gmail.com>,
	       Bill Schmidt <wschmidt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH], PowerPC support to enable -mlra and/or -mfloat128
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2016 12:40:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7f93c3f9-6e15-257e-f573-43f2c14127fe@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160712121559.GC13551@gate.crashing.org>

On 07/12/2016 02:15 PM, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> How can LRA ever be made default for all targets without breaking those
> that do not want to change?

LRA advocates would have to fix the issues with it that prevent it from 
being usable on certain targets. Based on my initial experiments with 
Blackfin, and LRA review comments I had based on c6x requirements, I 
suspect register elimination will have to be rewritten to start with.


Bernd

  reply	other threads:[~2016-07-12 12:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-07-11 20:07 Michael Meissner
2016-07-11 21:25 ` Michael Meissner
2016-07-20 17:04   ` [PATCH #2], " Michael Meissner
2016-07-12 10:29 ` [PATCH], " Richard Biener
2016-07-12 11:19   ` Segher Boessenkool
2016-07-12 11:21   ` Bernd Schmidt
2016-07-12 11:31     ` Richard Biener
2016-07-12 12:16       ` Segher Boessenkool
2016-07-12 12:40         ` Bernd Schmidt [this message]
2016-07-12 12:45           ` Segher Boessenkool
2016-07-12 12:48             ` Bernd Schmidt
2016-07-12 15:17               ` Bernd Schmidt
2016-07-12 16:31                 ` Segher Boessenkool
2016-07-12 16:57                   ` Bernd Schmidt
2016-07-12 12:55           ` Segher Boessenkool
2016-07-12 19:44     ` Michael Meissner
2016-07-12 21:20       ` Segher Boessenkool

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