Michael Hope <micha...@juju.net.nz> writes: > HI there. I'm working on porting gcc to a new architecture which only > does indirect addressing - there is no indirect with displacement. > > The problem is with spill locations in GCC 4.4.0. The elimination > code correctly elimates the frame and args pointer and replaces it > with register X. The problem is that it then generates indirect with > offset loads to load spilt values.
It sounds like you need to use a secondary reload with a scratch register, so that you have a register that you can set to the stack frame address to use. Look at the docs for TARGET_SECONDARY_RELOAD. > Could someone point me in the right direction please? Is it > appropriate to ask such questions on this list? Yes, questions about porting gcc are appropriate for this mailing list. Ian
