Re: [PATCH] Add extensive commentary to sparc's "U" constraint.

2012-11-07 Thread David Miller
From: Steven Bosscher Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2012 01:19:11 +0100 > On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 11:39 PM, David Miller wrote: >> One idea that occurred to me was perhaps to extend >> define_register_constraint such that an extra condition can be >> specified. So for sparc's constraint "U" it would evaluate

Re: [PATCH] Add extensive commentary to sparc's "U" constraint.

2012-11-07 Thread Steven Bosscher
On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 11:39 PM, David Miller wrote: > One idea that occurred to me was perhaps to extend > define_register_constraint such that an extra condition can be > specified. So for sparc's constraint "U" it would evaluate to > GENERAL_REGS but also express the condition that the hard reg

Re: [PATCH] Add extensive commentary to sparc's "U" constraint.

2012-11-07 Thread Vladimir Makarov
On 12-11-07 5:39 PM, David Miller wrote: Vlad, I wanted to make you aware of the following because it's a major barrier for using LRA on sparc at this time. I therefore do not think moving to LRA on this target is possible in the 4.8 timeframe, which is fine. The situation is described complete

[PATCH] Add extensive commentary to sparc's "U" constraint.

2012-11-07 Thread David Miller
Vlad, I wanted to make you aware of the following because it's a major barrier for using LRA on sparc at this time. I therefore do not think moving to LRA on this target is possible in the 4.8 timeframe, which is fine. The situation is described completely in the comment I am adding in the patch