From: Eric Botcazou <ebotca...@adacore.com> Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2013 18:07:05 +0200
>> We can actually support this by adding patterns for the partial store >> instructions, which can store 8-bit and 16-bit quantities from FP >> registers. > > Ah, indeed, with -mvis. Not clear whether that would really be worthwhile. Well, %99 of sparc cpus used with gcc these days are -mvis capable, and popping the value to the integer register file via the stack in these situations is needless overhead.