Paolo Bonzini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I am going to argue that it was a bug that we did not allow new > > pseudos after flow had ran. And that we should have always allowed > > pseudos before the register allocator. Since flow was so broken, we > > could not, we added the hack no_new_pseudos get around that problem. > > Now we are saying it is a nice abstraction but I am saying this > > abstraction should never have happened in the first place. We now > > have a better compiler due to the removal of the hack. > > The bad abstraction was causing quirks in *when* no_new_pseudos was > set to 1. But no_new_pseudos is a good abstraction in itself, people > are arguing on whether it is a better abstraction as > "reload_in_progress || reload_completed".
We've moved past that option, now we're arguing about using regalloc_started_p (). Ian
