From: Richard Henderson <rth@cygnus.com>
To: law@cygnus.com
Cc: meissner@cygnus.com, egcs@cygnus.com, gcc2@cygnus.com,
michaelh@ongaonga.chch.cri.nz
Subject: Re: base + index register addressing
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 1997 20:51:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <19971017172332.63065@dot.cygnus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <11849.877108032@hurl.cygnus.com>
On Fri, Oct 17, 1997 at 11:07:12AM -0600, Jeffrey A Law wrote:
> Well, on targets where we do fp/ap elimination we still don't care
> all that much since most don't have reg + scaled reg/const + constant offset.
> Which is what such addresses will turn into when the fp/ap gets eliminated.
>
> I'm not saying this extension isn't useful, just that it isn't as useful
> as one might initially think.
But i386 and m68k do, which are used widely enough to make it worth it.
r~
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1997-10-17 20:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-10-17 12:53 meissner
1997-10-17 13:57 ` Jeffrey A Law
1997-10-17 20:51 ` Richard Henderson [this message]
1997-10-17 12:53 meissner
1997-10-17 13:57 ` Jeffrey A Law
1997-10-17 20:51 ` Michael P. Hayes
1997-10-17 21:40 ` Jeffrey A Law
1997-10-20 9:43 ` Nick Ing-Simmons
1997-10-20 18:12 ` Joern Rennecke
1997-10-21 8:49 ` Nick Ing-Simmons
1997-10-21 9:25 ` John Carr
[not found] <199710170919.WAA23619@ongaonga.chch.cri.nz>
1997-10-17 13:57 ` Jeffrey A Law
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