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Re: GCC floating point usage

From: Mike Stump <mstump at apple dot com>
To: David Edelsohn <dje at watson dot ibm dot com>
Cc: Zack Weinberg <zack at codesourcery dot com>, Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>, Geoff Keating <geoffk at geoffk dot org>, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 15:47:50 -0800
Subject: Re: GCC floating point usage

On Tuesday, February 25, 2003, at 03:03 PM, David Edelsohn wrote:

	The PowerPC *BSD developers started discussing how to avoid using
FPRs for integer moves.

http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2002-10/msg00707.html

Sigh.

We cannot guarantee that FPRs will not be implicitly used, but we
can discourage FPRs for DImode.  Would that be a useful improvement?

Yes. Though, might as well go all the way.

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