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Newsgroups: | comp.compilers |
From: | preston@helena.cs.rice.edu (Preston Briggs) |
Organization: | Rice University, Houston |
Date: | Mon, 5 Oct 1992 21:05:12 GMT |
References: | 92-10-013 |
Keywords: | registers |
storm@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca (Marc WANDSCHNEIDER) writes:
>[why did DEC compiler writers care if Alpha has combined or separate
>integer and FP registers?]
I don't think it's a matter of the compiler writer taking advantage of the
split; instead, I think it was a matter of ensuring that the split
wouldn't inhibit optimization (i.e., they didn't want to annoy the
compiler writers).
Preston Briggs
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