glibc 2.1.92 make check results under Linux PPC

Geoff Keating geoffk@cygnus.com
Mon Aug 21 10:51:00 GMT 2000


> From: Franz Sirl <Franz.Sirl-kernel@lauterbach.com>
> Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2000 13:32:10 +0200
> Cc: aj@suse.de, howarth@fuse.net, libc-alpha@sourceware.cygnus.com

> Argh, make being smart about .i and .s files tricked me in thinking this 
> passes with gcc-2.96 too. But due to better optimization (eg. glibc22 is 
> about 5% smaller with 2.96) gcc now creates an auto-inc address. This 
> requires a small additional patch.

Why are we not just having gcc load the value into a FPR?  It seems
weird that we have to do the load as well as the actual
status-register change, we don't do that anywhere else.

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- Geoffrey Keating <geoffk@cygnus.com>


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