Hi Steven,
> Should new ports be allowed in if they rely so heavily on reload?
As it happens I am currently working on enabling LRA for the MSP430
target. Although I have run into a roadblock with a possibly
unacceptable patch to simplify_subreg_regno:
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2013-05/msg00135.html
The LRA conversion is a work in progress however, and one that does not
have my highest priority, so we would really like to have the current
reload-heavy version accepted. The current version works, and it will
be converted to LRA in the future, so is it really necessary to block
its adoption now ?
Cheers
Nick
