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authorRichard Kenner <kenner@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu>2000-03-03 12:29:42 +0000
committerRichard Kenner <kenner@gcc.gnu.org>2000-03-03 07:29:42 -0500
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* md.texi: Document use of '*' in insn pattern name.
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+Fri Mar 3 07:38:34 2000 Richard Kenner <kenner@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu>
+
+ * md.texi: Document use of '*' in insn pattern name.
+
2000-03-03 Jason Merrill <jason@casey.cygnus.com>
* calls.c (special_function_p): operator new may not be malloc-like.
diff --git a/gcc/md.texi b/gcc/md.texi
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Names that are not thus known and used in RTL-generation have no
effect; they are equivalent to no name at all.
+For the purpose of debugging the compiler, you may also specify a
+name beginning with the @samp{*} character. Such a name is used only
+for identifying the instruction in RTL dumps; it is entirely equivalent
+to having a nameless pattern for all other purposes.
+
@item
The @dfn{RTL template} (@pxref{RTL Template}) is a vector of incomplete
RTL expressions which show what the instruction should look like. It is