From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Jeffrey A Law <law@cygnus.com>
To: hjl@lucon.org (H.J. Lu)
Cc: wilson@cygnus.com, scox@cygnus.com, crux@pool.informatik.rwth-aachen.de, egcs@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: More fp bug in egcs 
Date: Mon, 04 May 1998 22:00:00 -0000
Message-id: <24112.894344399@hurl.cygnus.com>
References: <m0yWSyp-000268C@ocean.lucon.org>
X-SW-Source: 1998-05/msg00114.html

  In message < m0yWSyp-000268C@ocean.lucon.org >you write:
  > Since the value in the clobbered register is controlled by the
  > compiler, may depend on the user source code, may change from
  > release to release and the clobbered register itself may disappear
  > from release to release, how will the user know what the value in
  > the clobbered register should be? It seems to me that as far as
  > the user is concerned, any value in the clobbered register is
  > be ok as long as the destination of the instruction is valid.
HJ, we are not fixing this bug with a patch to reload.  Period.

If you want to argue that this code is an optimization and it actually
helps with -O, then we'll consider adding it as an optimization.  But
it is not the right way to fix the bug.

jef