Richard, this message of yours about changes for 15.2 RC has been
percolating in my head since I first saw it.
So, today I gave it a shot.
A significant amount of COBOL development has occurred in the four months
since GCC-15 was released.
I just built a patch that brought changes in COBOL from
Snapshot gcc-14-20250725 is now available on
https://gcc.gnu.org/pub/gcc/snapshots/14-20250725/
and on various mirrors, see https://gcc.gnu.org/mirrors.html for details.
This snapshot has been generated from the GCC 14 git branch
with the following options: git://gcc.gnu.org/git/gcc.git branch
There are two levels of dysfunction here:
1. Why spill & fill through the stack? Why not extract scalars directly
from vregs
directly into scalar regs?
2. Why involve scalar registers at all? Why not vslide or even vrgather,
using
temporary vregs as necessary?
That's how expmed does
