On Wed, 2007-05-30 at 17:53 -0700, Andrew Pinski wrote: > On 5/30/07, Jeffrey Law <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 2007-05-29 at 16:13 -0700, Andrew Pinski wrote: > > > The next step is to see if that patch is no longer needed for hppa > > > (well and fixing the hppa back-end). > > I would expect you can kill that patch; I don't think you can "fix" > > the PA backend because RTL passes can muck this stuff up pretty > > badly (even if you have a solid definition of what REG_POINTER > > really means -- see the archives from the late 1990s and early 2000s) > > What I had meant by fixing the PA back-end was for Pointer Plus. > Changes are needed in reloc_needed and hppa_gimplify_va_arg_expr and > not fixing the use of REG_POINTER :) Sorry if I was not clear there. Ah. OK.
Jeff