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From: Nathan Froyd <froydnj@codesourcery.com>
To: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com>
Cc: roy rosen <roy.1rosen@gmail.com>, gcc@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: lower subreg optimization
Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2010 19:05:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100406190541.GM540@codesourcery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mcr6344qum2.fsf@dhcp-172-17-9-151.mtv.corp.google.com>

On Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 11:55:01AM -0700, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> Nathan Froyd <froydnj@codesourcery.com> writes:
> > Compiling anything that uses doubles on powerpc e500v2 produces awful
> > code due in part to lower-subregs (the register allocator doesn't help,
> > either, but that's a different story).
> 
> I doubt that a target hook is required to avoid this.  Perhaps
> simple_move_operand should reject a mode changing subreg when the two
> modes are !MODE_TIEABLE_P.

Ah, thanks for the pointer. I'll try poking at that.

> This code is sort of weird, though; why the conversion from DImode to
> DFmode?

Welcome to the wonderful world of e500, which has floating-point
instructions operating on the general purpose registers.

-Nathan

  reply	other threads:[~2010-04-06 19:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-06  9:24 roy rosen
2010-04-06 16:37 ` Jim Wilson
2010-04-08  6:16   ` roy rosen
2010-04-09 16:52     ` Jim Wilson
2010-04-06 16:58 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2010-04-06 17:13   ` Nathan Froyd
2010-04-06 17:27     ` Steven Bosscher
2010-04-06 18:55     ` Ian Lance Taylor
2010-04-06 19:05       ` Nathan Froyd [this message]
2010-04-06 19:23       ` Joseph S. Myers

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