Hi, On Fri, 18 Jan 2008, Alexander Graf wrote:
> On Jan 18, 2008, at 4:41 PM, Fabrice Bellard wrote: > > > Alexander Graf wrote: > > > This patch is mostly a cleanup of Michael Matz's patch with the > > > ideas that came last time included. > > > > I must say I don't like such patches because they are likely to break > > with every new GCC version. > > Basically these patches only fixed what was broken, so I don't see any > way they make anything worse than what we have now. Especially because > the only intrusive patches are the i386 ones, which are conditional for > gcc4, so there really is nothing it breaks here. It merely removes the > assumption that if registers can be used for temporary variables, there > are 3 spare ones and fixes a bug which was officially marked as XXX. But that broke a previously working system, and that's why I agree with Fabrice. Ciao, Dscho
