Re: FASTCALL in egcs was Re: Kernel 2.1.117 OOPS bug report

Jeffrey A Law (law@hurl.cygnus.com)
Sun, 23 Aug 1998 10:33:22 -0600


In message <19980823183032.00966@cuci.nl>you write:
> Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> >I fixed gcc this way:
> > TIMEVAR (combine_time, combine_instructions (insns, max_reg_num ()));
>
> The patch basically is correct.
No, that patch is not correct.

The problem with reparm is in the reload pass of the compiler,
attempts to fix it elsewhere just paper over the problem.

jeff

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