On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 1:17 PM, Richard Henderson <r...@redhat.com> wrote: > For gcc 4.9, I intend to ensure that optabs.c can make automatic use of > [us]mul<mode>_highpart. There are plenty of targets that only implement > _highpart but not the widening pattern. But that's not something that would > be appropriate at this stage in the 4.8 cycle. > > Whether this patch is appropriate for 4.8.0 is someone else's call, but it's > probably safe to queue it for 4.8.1.
> * config/rs6000/rs6000.md (smulditi3): New. > (umulditi3): New. This patch is fine. I don't have a problem with committing if for 4.8.0, unless the RMs object. In fact, I would rather add a new instruction and deal with any fallout for 4.8.0 instead of 4.8.1. Thanks, David