On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 9:02 PM, Alan Modra <amo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 04, 2014 at 05:54:04PM -0700, Carrot Wei wrote:
>> Another problem is in the definition of insn pattern "*movdi_internal64".
>>
>> (define_insn "*movdi_internal64"
>>   [(set (match_operand:DI 0 "nonimmediate_operand"
>> "=Y,r,r,r,r,r,?m,?*d,?*d,r,*h,*h,r,?*wg,r,?*wm")
>>         (match_operand:DI 1 "input_operand"
>> "r,Y,r,I,L,nF,d,m,d,*h,r,0,*wg,r,*wm,r"))]
>>   "TARGET_POWERPC64
>>    && (gpc_reg_operand (operands[0], DImode)
>>        || gpc_reg_operand (operands[1], DImode))"
>>
>> The predicates of this insn pattern allow the moving of an integer to
>> VSX register, but there is no constraint allow this case. Can this
>> cause problem in reload?
>
> Probably, just as you found with fprs.  The underlying issue is that
> the operand predicates don't match the operand constraints.  What's
> more, you can't make them match without breaking up the insn, or
> adding a whole lot of extra alternatives.
>
VSX instructions can't load integer constant to vsx registers. So I
will try to split this insn to see if it can fix the reload problem.

thanks a lot
Guozhi Wei

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