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From: Peter Bergner <bergner@linux.ibm.com>
To: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>,
	richard.sandiford@arm.com
Cc: Gcc-patches <gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org>, "ian@airs.com" <ian@airs.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] lower-subreg: PR94123, SVN r273240, causes gcc.target/powerpc/pr87507.c to fail
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2020 11:26:59 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <99d2d9f1-ff48-ffc2-f56f-d90ccaac6b84@linux.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6c43dfe0-2dd8-aa95-4ace-62b49657e0aa@linux.ibm.com>

On 3/30/20 11:23 AM, Peter Bergner wrote:
> I kind of agree with Richard above on making it more applicable/symmetric,
> but why can't we just remove the HARD_REGISTER_NUM_P() tests altogether?
> It's not like lower-subreg is extending hard register lifetime usage than
> what is already there in the rtl.  We're just decomposing what's already
> there into smaller register sized chunks.  Is there a problem with that
> I'm not aware of?

...or maybe there was an issue when combine used to extend hard register
lifetimes (which it doesn't anymore) and the test above was just a workaround?

Peter



  reply	other threads:[~2020-03-30 16:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-03-27 22:41 Peter Bergner
2020-03-27 23:26 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2020-03-28 19:22 ` Segher Boessenkool
2020-03-28 23:39   ` Peter Bergner
2020-04-02 21:56     ` Segher Boessenkool
2020-03-30  8:50 ` Richard Sandiford
2020-03-30 11:26   ` Segher Boessenkool
2020-03-30 16:23     ` Peter Bergner
2020-03-30 16:26       ` Peter Bergner [this message]
2020-03-30 16:39       ` Segher Boessenkool
2020-03-30 16:06   ` Segher Boessenkool
2020-04-01 17:48   ` Peter Bergner
2020-04-01 18:32     ` Richard Sandiford
2020-04-01 19:43       ` Peter Bergner

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