On Wed, 16 Dec 2020, Paul Koning wrote: > > NB the PDP-11 pieces affected here and tripping this assertion are I > > believe dead code, as these insns are only ever produced by splitters and > > do not appear to be referred by their names. > > Right; I gave them names for documentation purposes, after all insns are > allowed to have names whether or not the name is referenced or is a > required name for RTL generation.
You can use `*foo' however to have it printed in dumps and be able to refer to it otherwise, while not producing callable `gen_foo' entrypoints. It is not a feature GCC has always had, but it's been around for a little while already. Maciej
