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Re: Need help with -m68060 switch on egcs-1.1b


> > Right, egcs doesn't use 32x32->64 muls for int-int muls. I wonder
> > why gcc did that.. wastes one register for the upper 32 bits of the
> > result for nothing. This would be different:
> > 
> > long long result = (long long)(a * b);
> > /* a, b are ints */
> 
> It also makes it impossible to look at a piece of code and say
> definitively that it does not use the FPU.

Using the fpu for integer muls/divs is against C standard, isn't it? 


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