On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Philip Blundell wrote:
> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> .AU>, Adam 'WeirdArms' Wiggins writes:
> > Does the arm port of binutils as do ANY instruction reordering for
> >load delay slots on the StrongARM SA-1 core or any others?
>
> No. The assembler just does what you tell it -- it's the compiler's job to
> take care of delay slots and other instruction dependencies. GAS doesn't have
> anything like the degree of intelligence necessary to work out what would be a
> valid transform and what would not.
As far as I can tell, gcc seems a bit brain-dead when it comes to
optimisations. Is anyone working on the back-ends to get better code
generation for processors like the SA-1 based ones?
Cheers Adam
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