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Re: m68k reloc types
Richard Henderson <rth@redhat.com> writes:
> On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 11:38:09AM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote:
>> Agreed, although probably much less in C++. But if they are references
>> more than once in a function then cse'ing the address is usually faster
>> anyway.
>
> I wasn't aware that m68k had so many free registers that it
More than i386 anyway. :-)
> is unconcerned about spilling once the function grows to a
> non-trivial size.
Well, there is a trade between using a addressing mode that wastes 4 bytes
for every use and spilling a register here and there.
Andreas.
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