Richard Sandiford <richard.sandif...@linaro.org> writes: > The ??? is saying that the V8QI-derived MEM is really a 3-byte access, > not a 4-byte (SI) access, and so on. The comment makes the mode sound > like a representational niceity, but really, there's no such thing as > a "conservatively wrong" memory size here. If a store's mode is too > small, dependent loads could be deleted as dead. If it's too big, > unrelated live loads could be deleted as dead.
In case it isn't obvious, I meant "unrelated live stores". Richard