> I understand your concern and the patch indeed will have an impact on the > generated code of probably several back-ends. But with entering stage 3 the > backend maintainers anyway are supposed to have a closer look at > regressions.
Yes, that's why risking to introduce more of them isn't the best thing to do at this stage. IMO this is too late in the 4.7 cycle. > In my opinion the patch makes reload behave more like everybody expects it to > behave and at least for s390 I can say that we have several patterns which > have been written with that expectation. With the patch GCC generates better > code for S/390 so I would like to see this patch applied. That isn't compelling enough I think, given the timing. -- Eric Botcazou
