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authorHans-Peter Nilsson <hp@axis.com>2022-03-26 05:31:22 +0100
committerHans-Peter Nilsson <hp@axis.com>2022-03-26 05:31:22 +0100
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reload: Adjust comment in find_reloads about subset, not intersection
gcc: * reload.cc (find_reloads): Align comment with code where considering the intersection of register classes then tweaking the regclass for the current alternative or rejecting it.
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diff --git a/gcc/reload.cc b/gcc/reload.cc
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@@ -3635,9 +3635,11 @@ find_reloads (rtx_insn *insn, int replace, int ind_levels, int live_known,
a hard reg and this alternative accepts some
register, see if the class that we want is a subset
of the preferred class for this register. If not,
- but it intersects that class, use the preferred class
- instead. If it does not intersect the preferred
- class, show that usage of this alternative should be
+ but it intersects that class, we'd like to use the
+ intersection, but the best we can do is to use the
+ preferred class, if it is instead a subset of the
+ class we want in this alternative. If we can't use
+ it, show that usage of this alternative should be
discouraged; it will be discouraged more still if the
register is `preferred or nothing'. We do this
because it increases the chance of reusing our spill
@@ -3664,9 +3666,10 @@ find_reloads (rtx_insn *insn, int replace, int ind_levels, int live_known,
if (! reg_class_subset_p (this_alternative[i],
preferred_class[i]))
{
- /* Since we don't have a way of forming the intersection,
- we just do something special if the preferred class
- is a subset of the class we have; that's the most
+ /* Since we don't have a way of forming a register
+ class for the intersection, we just do
+ something special if the preferred class is a
+ subset of the class we have; that's the most
common case anyway. */
if (reg_class_subset_p (preferred_class[i],
this_alternative[i]))