On Wed, Sep 11, 2002 at 03:58:32PM -0700, Randolph Chung wrote: > > In _dl_start I'm not sure if r19 is expected to be correct or not - I > > suspect that it may not be, and they didn't take into account the idea > > that an integer divide would need to load from a constant pool... why > > on earth is GCC generating an FP divide anyway? > > there's no divide insn on pa. it's generating a fp multiply against a > constant (inverse of 1/sizeof(blah))
Division by a constant can be done entirely in integer multiplies and shifts. It should be if your costs are anything reasonable - that constant load must be expensive! -- Daniel Jacobowitz MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
