On 06/21/2013 01:00 PM, Andreas Krebbel wrote:
> On 20/06/13 02:00, Vladimir Makarov wrote:
>> I hope the following patch fixes
>>
>> http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=57604
>>
>> Although I have no specific hardware to check this.
>>
>> The patch also adds a comment about one recent change as it was done in 
>> the same function.
>>
>> The patch was successfully bootstrapped and tested on x86/x86-64 and 
>> s390x (including building java).
> 
> With your patch I can successfully bootstrap GCC on s390x with ada and java 
> enabled. Thanks!
> 
> However, the ESA mode (31bit) bootstrap seems to have some issues.
> With 31bit addressing we cannot make the load address instruction available 
> like a normal add in the
> backend since GCC then would try to use it for non-address calculations. This 
> would be wrong since
> the highest bit would be ignored then.
> 
> The addptr optab proposed by Richard looks like a good solution to me.  It 
> could perhaps default to
> a normal add for targets where it does not make a difference.

FWIW I have such a patch, made for a machine with segmented pointers. It
adds a ptr_plus rtx code and a padd optab. I could try to dig it out if
there's interest (it's against 4.5 though). I didn't realize that there
are existing ports with similar problems.


Bernd


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