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Re: glibc 2.1.92 make check results under Linux PPC
> From: Franz Sirl <Franz.Sirl-kernel@lauterbach.com>
> Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2000 13:32:10 +0200
> Cc: aj@suse.de, howarth@fuse.net, libc-alpha@sourceware.cygnus.com
> Argh, make being smart about .i and .s files tricked me in thinking this
> passes with gcc-2.96 too. But due to better optimization (eg. glibc22 is
> about 5% smaller with 2.96) gcc now creates an auto-inc address. This
> requires a small additional patch.
Why are we not just having gcc load the value into a FPR? It seems
weird that we have to do the load as well as the actual
status-register change, we don't do that anywhere else.
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- Geoffrey Keating <geoffk@cygnus.com>