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author | J"orn Rennecke <joern.rennecke@superh.com> | 2004-01-23 13:01:42 +0000 |
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committer | Joern Rennecke <amylaar@gcc.gnu.org> | 2004-01-23 13:01:42 +0000 |
commit | 7be4d808ffd3bb0bab32a4882fe7db2dd9aac379 (patch) | |
tree | 42529d1eb0ebe4cb9d1f1aaac576501e8e97de7d /gcc/doc | |
parent | 3ac55a5a69f6a4f2f1acac66a36676c63c428db8 (diff) | |
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tm.texi: Insert some weasel words when LOAD_EXTEND_OP may or may not return non-NIL.
* doc/tm.texi: Insert some weasel words when LOAD_EXTEND_OP
may or may not return non-NIL.
* postreload.c (reload_cse_simplify_operands): In LOAD_EXTEND_OP code,
check CANNOT_CHANGE_MODE_CLASS
From-SVN: r76415
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diff --git a/gcc/doc/tm.texi b/gcc/doc/tm.texi index b3ac4c8..41f1fcb 100644 --- a/gcc/doc/tm.texi +++ b/gcc/doc/tm.texi @@ -8520,20 +8520,31 @@ smaller than a word are always performed on the entire register. Most RISC machines have this property and most CISC machines do not. @end defmac -@defmac LOAD_EXTEND_OP (@var{mode}) +@defmac LOAD_EXTEND_OP (@var{mem_mode}) Define this macro to be a C expression indicating when insns that read -memory in @var{mode}, an integral mode narrower than a word, set the -bits outside of @var{mode} to be either the sign-extension or the +memory in @var{mem_mode}, an integral mode narrower than a word, set the +bits outside of @var{mem_mode} to be either the sign-extension or the zero-extension of the data read. Return @code{SIGN_EXTEND} for values -of @var{mode} for which the +of @var{mem_mode} for which the insn sign-extends, @code{ZERO_EXTEND} for which it zero-extends, and @code{NIL} for other modes. -This macro is not called with @var{mode} non-integral or with a width +This macro is not called with @var{mem_mode} non-integral or with a width greater than or equal to @code{BITS_PER_WORD}, so you may return any value in this case. Do not define this macro if it would always return @code{NIL}. On machines where this macro is defined, you will normally define it as the constant @code{SIGN_EXTEND} or @code{ZERO_EXTEND}. + +You may return a non-@code{NIL} value even if for some hard registers +the sign extension is not performed, if for the @code{REGNO_REG_CLASS} +of these hard registers @code{CANNOT_CHANGE_MODE_CLASS} returns nonzero +when the @var{from} mode is @var{mem_mode} and the @var{to} mode is any +integral mode larger than this but not larger than @code{word_mode}. + +You must return @code{NIL} if for some hard registers that allow this +mode, @code{CANNOT_CHANGE_MODE_CLASS} says that they cannot change to +@code{word_mode}, but that they can change to another integral mode that +is larger then @var{mem_mode} but still smaller than @code{word_mode}. @end defmac @defmac SHORT_IMMEDIATES_SIGN_EXTEND |