https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=88952
Peter Bergner <bergner at gcc dot gnu.org> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |bergner at gcc dot gnu.org --- Comment #15 from Peter Bergner <bergner at gcc dot gnu.org> --- (In reply to Segher Boessenkool from comment #14) > Ah no, that is all understood. What I am commenting on is that you > have an odd-even register pair (9 and 10), while every GCC I know of > and/or tested uses an even-odd pair (10 and 11 usually). Curious. IIRC, register pairs in the rs6000 backend can be either even/odd or odd/even registers. The only exception to that is the _Decimal128 type is forced into even/odd register pairs due to the hardware instructions used to operate on them require even/odd register pairs.