Re: compile-rtl, II

[Andy Wingo]

On Mon 15 Oct 2012 16:05, Stefan Israelsson Tampe <address@hidden> writes:

> (arg1, return-address, old-frame, program, arg2 ...)
>
> This way we do not need to copy the program field at a tail call

What would you do for 0 arguments?

> Also another kind of difficulty will arise, many instructions only
> take a value of 256 register positions

Do you have examples?  I think the idea I had in mind was to reserve the
last two or three of the 8-bit-addressable registers as temporaries, and
emit long-mov shuffles to handle those cases.

Andy
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