On Fri, 5 Mar 2004, Dominic Sweetman wrote: > We added patterns to let our (old) GCC use the new rotates and > bit-insert/extracts, at least in simple cases. I'm not sure whether > we've put those in our 3.4 evolution tree yet, but if we have we > should push those out. As a side note, it makes me wonder where the borderline of the RISC actually is. Even Intel abandoned support for bit insert/extract instructions after an initial attempt for the i386. They figured out the implementation was too complicated. ;-) -- + Maciej W. Rozycki, Technical University of Gdansk, Poland + +--------------------------------------------------------------+ + e-mail: macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl, PGP key available +
