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From: David Edelsohn <dje@watson.ibm.com>
To: Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com>
Cc: Michael Matz <matz@suse.de>, Geoff Keating <geoffk@geoffk.org>,
	"mrs@apple.com" <mrs@apple.com>, "steby@enea.se" <steby@enea.se>,
	"gcc@gcc.gnu.org" <gcc@gcc.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: GCC floating point usage
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 15:27:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200210162134.RAA24036@makai.watson.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Message from Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com>  of "Wed, 16 Oct 2002 14:05:02 PDT." <364550000.1034802302@warlock.codesourcery.com>

>>>>> Mark Mitchell writes:

Mark> We're still hung up on a more basic problem, though; the RS6000
Mark> maintainers haven't yet made an up-or-down decision on the idea of
Mark> the flag...

	I do not fundamentally object to a commandline option, for some
set of semantics which remains ambigous in this discussion, IMHO.  I would
prefer if GCC implicitly avoided referencing FPRs in functions that do not
otherwise use floating point computations instead of an explicit option.

	I believe there are problems with the implementations of the flag
presented so far, both from a GCC Internals perspective (e.g., reload) and
a code generation perspective (e.g., emitting two successive GPR load or
store instructions which are not scheduled).

	I am reserving final judgment until I see a complete definition of
the semantics and an implementation that is more universally accepted as
correct.  Neither Geoff nor I want to take on the maintenance burden of a
flawed patch.

David

  reply	other threads:[~2002-10-16 21:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-10-14  9:59 Stefan Bylund
2002-10-14 10:16 ` David Edelsohn
2002-10-14 10:25   ` Zack Weinberg
2002-10-14 10:55     ` Dale Johannesen
2002-10-14 22:22     ` Mark Mitchell
2002-10-15 15:35       ` Geoff Keating
2002-10-15 16:10         ` Mark Mitchell
2002-10-15 17:20           ` Geoff Keating
2002-10-15 18:09             ` Mark Mitchell
2002-10-16  7:40               ` Joel Sherrill
2002-10-15 19:04             ` Mike Stump
2002-10-16 12:06               ` Mark Mitchell
2002-10-16 13:35                 ` Geoff Keating
2002-10-16 14:29                   ` Mark Mitchell
2002-10-16 14:56                     ` Michael Matz
2002-10-16 15:03                       ` Mark Mitchell
2002-10-16 15:27                         ` David Edelsohn [this message]
2002-10-16 15:36                           ` Mark Mitchell
2002-10-16 16:35                             ` Zack Weinberg
2002-10-16 16:36                               ` Mark Mitchell
2002-10-16 16:46                             ` David Edelsohn
2002-10-17  8:37                             ` Paul Koning
2002-10-16 17:57                           ` Mike Stump
2002-10-17  4:12                   ` Mike Stump
2002-10-16 13:43               ` Richard Henderson
2002-10-16 14:35                 ` Mark Mitchell
2002-10-16 14:56                   ` Joel Sherrill
2002-10-16 16:38                   ` Richard Henderson
2002-10-16 16:53                     ` Zack Weinberg
2002-10-16 17:52                       ` Michael Matz
2002-10-16 22:50                       ` Richard Henderson
2002-10-21 12:21                         ` Jeff Law
2002-10-16 17:29                 ` Mike Stump
2002-10-17  2:19                   ` Richard Henderson
2002-10-15 17:19         ` Mike Stump
2002-10-15 18:41         ` Zack Weinberg
2002-10-16  1:48           ` Fergus Henderson
2002-10-14 10:37   ` Stefan Bylund
2002-10-14 11:28     ` Mike Stump
2002-10-14 12:39       ` Joel Sherrill

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