So I set up fake registers in target.h, and implement their behaviour with
a stack logic?
My binutils is already ported, how will this work with GAS not knowing
whether i use registers or not?

2017-11-15 16:38 GMT+01:00 Jeff Law <l...@redhat.com>:

> On 11/15/2017 08:33 AM, Ábrahám Endre wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I'm trying to make a gcc backend for a stack machine, is there a way to
> > disable register specific behaviour required by target.h, target.c? also
> > all preserved names in the RTL language assume usages of operands (addm3
> > mulm3 etc) which is not an option in my target, do I have to manually set
> > up new stack-based behaviour in the def?
> I suspect the best way to go is to pretend you have a normal register
> file up through the register allocator.  After register allocation
> you'll want to convert to a stacked file.
>
> GCC already does this for the x87 floating point unit, so you could
> probably generalize and build on top of that existing code (reg-stack.c).
>
> jeff
>
>

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