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From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl>
Cc: "Bradley D. LaRonde" <brad@laronde.org>,
	linux-mips@linux-mips.org, Eric Christopher <echristo@redhat.com>,
	Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gcc 3.4 drops "accum" clobber, replace with "hi" intime.c
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2004 15:00:30 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040418130029.GA23489@linux-mips.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.55.0404131451200.15949@jurand.ds.pg.gda.pl>

On Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 02:57:07PM +0200, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:

> 
> > OK, so this patch actually builds, and it sounds like it will do the job,
> > since "accum" means "hi and low", "lo" is already clobbered in all cases,
> > and either "hi" is the output and doesn't need clobbering (hunks 1, 2, and
> > 4), or "hi" is already clobbered (hunk 3).
> 
>  There are more places this should be dealt with and I have the following 
> preliminary patch for this, but I'm unsure about removal of "accum" being 
> completely safe for older compilers.

From everything I know about the behavior of older compilers this should
be save.  "accum" was treated a little strage in some context anyway, so
I'm happy to see it go ...

  Ralf

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From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl>
Cc: "Bradley D. LaRonde" <brad@laronde.org>,
	linux-mips@linux-mips.org, Eric Christopher <echristo@redhat.com>,
	Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gcc 3.4 drops "accum" clobber, replace with "hi" intime.c
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2004 15:00:30 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040418130029.GA23489@linux-mips.org> (raw)
Message-ID: <20040418130030.nqJElSUBHZgzjhgs93gNM5dDJD7U2iVQ8tKxf83jAgA@z> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.55.0404131451200.15949@jurand.ds.pg.gda.pl>

On Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 02:57:07PM +0200, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:

> 
> > OK, so this patch actually builds, and it sounds like it will do the job,
> > since "accum" means "hi and low", "lo" is already clobbered in all cases,
> > and either "hi" is the output and doesn't need clobbering (hunks 1, 2, and
> > 4), or "hi" is already clobbered (hunk 3).
> 
>  There are more places this should be dealt with and I have the following 
> preliminary patch for this, but I'm unsure about removal of "accum" being 
> completely safe for older compilers.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-04-18 13:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-04-12 20:51 Work on IP30 Stanislaw Skowronek
2004-04-12 23:13 ` Ralf Baechle
2004-04-12 23:42   ` [PATCH] gcc 3.4 drops "accum" clobber, replace with "hi" in time.c Bradley D. LaRonde
2004-04-12 23:42     ` Bradley D. LaRonde
2004-04-13  0:53     ` Bradley D. LaRonde
2004-04-13  0:53       ` Bradley D. LaRonde
2004-04-13  1:02       ` Eric Christopher
2004-04-13  1:05         ` [PATCH] gcc 3.4 drops "accum" clobber, replace with "hi" intime.c Bradley D. LaRonde
2004-04-13  1:05           ` Bradley D. LaRonde
2004-04-13  1:07           ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2004-04-13  1:12             ` Bradley D. LaRonde
2004-04-13  1:12               ` Bradley D. LaRonde
2004-04-13  1:23               ` Bradley D. LaRonde
2004-04-13  1:23                 ` Bradley D. LaRonde
2004-04-13 12:57                 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2004-04-18  2:39                   ` Steven J. Hill
2004-04-19 11:50                     ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2004-04-18 13:00                   ` Ralf Baechle [this message]
2004-04-18 13:00                     ` Ralf Baechle

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