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Subject: Re: PATCH 1: Re: BOOTSTRAP FAILURE: segementation fault in genattrtab
From: "John David Anglin" <dave () hiauly1 ! hia ! nrc ! ca>
Date: 2000-11-30 18:45:28
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> In message <200011210645.BAA15807@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca>you write:
> > Is there a simple test to determine whether the frame pointer or other
> > eliminable register has been eliminated?
> I believe you can check FRAME_POINTER_NEEDED.
>
> > When I wrote the patch, I assumed
> > that no code would call gen_rtx_REG if it needed the frame_pointer_rtx
> > after reload even if it hadn't been eliminated. If there was such code,
> > the hack in the pa.md probably would have broken long ago. Isn't the above
> > unnecessarily complicating things?'
> Possibly not. But better safe than sorry IMHO.
>
> > This gets even messier for the arg_pointer_rtx. On the pa 64 bit target,
> > the arg pointer isn't eliminable or always invariant, so the register could
> > be used for multiple purposes in a function.
> Yes. But if you look at how the arg pointer is handled in that case you'll
> find that it gets copied into a special pseudo.
I believe that the above issues are addressed in this revised patch which
I sent the other day: <http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-bugs/2000-11/msg00797.html>.
Dave
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