> Sure, but the modifier is not meant to force something into memory,
> especially when it is already in an register. Remember, we are only
> talking of structures here, and we only want to access one member.
>
> It is more the other way round:
> It says: "You do not have to load the value in a register, if it is already
> in memory I'm happy"
EXPAND_MEMORY means we are interested in a memory result, even if
the memory is constant and we could have propagated a constant value. */
We definitely want to propagate constant values here, look at the code below.
And it already lists explicit cases where we really need to splill to memory.
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Eric Botcazou
