[PATCH v2 1/3] riscv: memcpy_noalignment: Make register allocation Zca-friendly

Yao Zihong zihong.plct@isrc.iscas.ac.cn
Wed Sep 17 14:16:12 GMT 2025


On 2025-09-17, Peter Bergner wrote:
> I don't know why you changed the lw and sw insns that have a -4
> offset, since those cannot be converted into a compressed form,
> so that looks like needless churn.

The changes to the lw/sw instructions with the -4 offset in the
L(tail) part were originally made for register consistency, but they
don’t provide any benefit for Zca compression. These changes will
be dropped in the next version to keep the patch minimal.

Thanks,
Yao Zihong



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