On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 04:27:57PM -0500, David Edelsohn wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 1:17 PM, Richard Henderson <r...@redhat.com> wrote:
> > For gcc 4.9, I intend to ensure that optabs.c can make automatic use of
> > [us]mul<mode>_highpart. There are plenty of targets that only implement
> > _highpart but not the widening pattern. But that's not something that would
> > be appropriate at this stage in the 4.8 cycle.
> >
> > Whether this patch is appropriate for 4.8.0 is someone else's call, but it's
> > probably safe to queue it for 4.8.1.
>
> > * config/rs6000/rs6000.md (smulditi3): New.
> > (umulditi3): New.
>
> This patch is fine. I don't have a problem with committing if for
> 4.8.0, unless the RMs object. In fact, I would rather add a new
> instruction and deal with any fallout for 4.8.0 instead of 4.8.1.
I agree it is better to put it in now than after 4.8.0 is released.
Jakub
