On 11/5/23 11:46, Richard Sandiford wrote:
I found the documentation for the mode-switching macros/hooks
a bit hard to follow at first. This patch tries to add the
information that I think would have made it easier to understand.
Of course, documentation preferences are personal, and so I could
be changing something that others understood to something that
seems impenetrable.
Some notes on specific changes:
- "in an optimizing compilation" didn't seem accurate; the pass
is run even at -O0, and often needs to be for correctness.
- "at run time" meant when the compiler was run, rather than when
the compiled code was run.
- Removing the list of optional macros isn't a clarification,
but it means that upcoming patches don't create an absurdly
long list.
- I don't really understand the purpose of TARGET_MODE_PRIORITY,
so I mostly left that alone.
gcc/
* target.def: Tweak documentation of mode-switching hooks.
* doc/tm.texi.in (OPTIMIZE_MODE_SWITCHING): Tweak documentation.
(NUM_MODES_FOR_MODE_SWITCHING): Likewise.
* doc/tm.texi: Regenerate.
OK. I doubt very many people have looked at this stuff. I think the
only targets implementing mode switching are x86, sh and riscv, and soon
aarch64 and for the most part I think most folks try to ignore it ;-)
jeff
