On Thu, Feb 10, 2022 at 06:23:58PM +0100, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 10, 2022 at 10:42:03AM -0600, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> > > Not on x86, that isn't a general auto-inc-dec target, but uses PRE_DEC
> > > etc. only for the sp hard register.
> > 
> > Ugh.  Does it have any benefit from using autoinc at all then?  (Actual
> > benefit, not notational convenience).
> 
> That is the most accurate description of what the push/pop instructions
> actually do, and the backend has been doing it for decades.

It is exactly as accurate as the simpler direct representation as a
parallel (which we have used since 1992).


Segher

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