On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 9:09 PM, Alan Modra wrote:
> gpc_reg_operand contains a test that dates back to the early 1990s,
> when FIRST_PSEUDO_REGISTER was 76. At that point, testing
> REGNO (op) >= ARG_POINTER_REGNUM allowed ap, xer/ca, cr0..cr7 and
> pseudos. A later patch corrected this to remo
gpc_reg_operand contains a test that dates back to the early 1990s,
when FIRST_PSEUDO_REGISTER was 76. At that point, testing
REGNO (op) >= ARG_POINTER_REGNUM allowed ap, xer/ca, cr0..cr7 and
pseudos. A later patch corrected this to remove xer. Nowadays we
have a lot more hard registers, altivec