On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 10:20 AM, Ayonam Ray <ayonam@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> I don't think the gcc middle-end has any support for machines which provide >> special handling for complex int. I think the middle-end always breaks up >> complex int operations into pairs of int operations. So to make this work you >> would probably have to add that support. >> > > Thanks Ian for the reply. Can you please point me to the files in the > middle-end where I may find the relevant code? There are probably multiple places to look. I would start with genopinit.c and expr.c. Look for support for complex float and see how to add support for complex int. This won't be a simple task, and you'll need to have a pretty clear understanding of how gcc works internally. Ian