PPC64 Compiler bug !!
David Edelsohn
dje at watson.ibm.com
Fri Jun 13 14:50:17 EST 2003
>>>>> linas writes:
linas> Assuming that someone provided a patch to do this, would the rs6000
linas> maintainers turn it down?
Yes, any such patch will be rejected.
Customers, especially in the embedded space, do not want
"discourage use of FPRs for DImode", they want "promise to not use any
FPRs in an integer-only function". GCC cannot accomplish that safely in
the target-specific portion of the compiler.
David
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