On 11/15/05, Andrew Pinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I told about importance of early access to machines based on new > > Itanium chip (Montecito) and documentation for gcc developers trying > > to improve gcc for Itanium. > > > > As for Mark Davis remark about rewriting RTL optimizations, I told > > that it can not be done easily. > > HUH? An example of something which can be rewritten easy and make > an improvement on IA64 is the ifcvt pass which can make more use > of ia64's predicates.
Note that I hope to be continuing to work on a rewrite of ifcvt soon. The basic idea is to split it into pre- and post-reload parts (basically not touching the post-reload part). I have started doing this already after the ifcvt patches I posted this summer. Richard.
