push (was: "Bug fixes")_(re)
Wed, 18 Jun 1997 12:59:38 +0200
Jan-Jaap van der Heijden wrote:
> The GCC 2.7.2.x backend used by GPC knows nothing about pentium
> optimzations or instruction scheduling.
I'd think the direct push is also faster on a 386/486, isn't it?
(As I said in another mail, I couldn't check it myself.)
> [...] So, I guess more work is needed here
> (by the GCC crew), although this compiler produces significantly faster
> code already :-)
Do you know who one could report this problem to, and ask about the
backend in general (newsgroups, addresses)? There's another issue
(concerning our planned OOP-interface implementation) that I'd like
to ask someone about.
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