On 06/14/10 11:58, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
"Amker.Cheng"<amker.ch...@gmail.com> writes:
Wondering whether possible to handle multi-word mode with more accuracy,
in either subreg or IRA pass?
Yes, it is possible. What you need to do is to write a split which
turns the mult:DI insn into an insn which sets two separate subregs.
The values for the two subregs will be written as shifts and truncates
of the mult:DI; see, e.g.,<s>mul<mode>3_highpart in i386.md. If you
do that, then with luck the second lower subreg pass will be able to
pull apart the values, and IRA will allocate them independently. You
want to write it as a split so that the RTL CSE and combine passes see
the mult:DI, in case they can do anything with it.
Note that lower-subreg is rather conservative when determining what
subregs to lower, particularly when the pseudo appears in different
modes (ie, some accesses are via SUBREGs, others are naked REGs). So
this approach may not necessarily work.
jeff
