On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 02:30:19PM -0400, Vladimir Makarov wrote: > >Couldn't we spill the frame pointer? Basically we should be able to > >compute the first address into a reg, spill that, do the second (both > >could require the frame pointer), spill the frame pointer, reload the > >first computed address from the stack, execute the insn and then reload > >the frame pointer. > > > >Maybe the frame pointer can also be implemented 'virually' in an index > >register that you keep updated so that sp + reg > >Is the FP. Or frame accesses can use a > >Stack slot as FP and the indirect memory > >Addressing... (is there an indirect lea?) > > > Yes, it could be a solution. It just needs some target maintainer > creativity. There are a lot of things (tricks) can be done in > machine-dependent code which would not require RA changes.
You can even go as far as not having the hard frame pointer be a machine register at all. In RTL it will still be a reg, but that doesn't mean the machine code you emit should be like that; you can use a special fixed memory location for it, for example. Segher
