On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 10:14 AM, Segher Boessenkool
<seg...@kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
> A comment in rs6000.h says "cr5 is not supposed to be used".  I checked
> all ABIs, going as far back as PowerOpen (1994), and found no mention
> of this.
>
> Also document cr6 is used by some vector instructions.
>
> Tested on powerpc64-linux, no regressions.  Okay to apply?
>
>
> Segher
>
>
> 2014-06-18  Segher Boessenkool  <seg...@kernel.crashing.org>
>
> gcc/
>         * config/rs6000/rs6000.h (FIXED_REGISTERS): Update comment.
>         Remove cr5.
>         (REG_ALLOC_ORDER): Update comment.  Move cr5 earlier.

This is okay.

I have no idea why RMS assumed that cr5 is fixed.

Thanks, David

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