Need help with -m68060 switch on egcs-1.1b

[Doug Evans]

   From: joel@OARcorp.com
   Date: Wed, 2 Dec 1998 07:58:26 -0600 (CST)

   On Wed, 2 Dec 1998, Jyrki O Saarinen wrote:
   > > I agree that this is undesirable behavior on an embedded system and should
   > > be reported.  
   > > 
   > > So this is a bug in gcc 2.x, not in egcs, right?
   > 
   > 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.

I wonder if the only definitive way is to compile code with -msoft-float.
If you want to copy a value from one place to another and all int regs
are in use, why flush one of them to stack if an fp reg is available?
Secondly, some system's memcpy explicitly use fp regs in order to take
advantage of special instructions (e.g. VIS on sparc64) ... And if you
can't look at a function that just calls memcpy and assume no fp regs
are in use, what can you assume? :-)
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