Re: Development process for i386 machine descriptions

2008-06-05 Thread Uros Bizjak
Hello! 1.) The processor_costs structure seems very limited, but seem very easily to "fill in" but are these costs supposed to be best or worst case? For instance, many instructions with different sized operands vary in latency. Instruction costs are further refined in config/i386.c, ix86_rt

Development process for i386 machine descriptions

2008-06-04 Thread Ty Smith
Hello, I'm a new developer to GCC and have been tasked with building a machine description for an x86 processor. I have documentation regarding the pipeline stages, instruction latency, and even a number of special case optimization possibilities. I have been adding small changes to i386.