Mark> I am not a tools expert by any means.. but from my
Mark> understanding there is work to support the 440 specific
Mark> items.
Mark> However, I believe the work is focused on enhancing binutils
Mark> (the assembler) and not the compiler. So any 440 specific
Mark> optimizations you would like would need to be written in
Mark> assembly. (My multi-month old memory is that the 440's new
Mark> userspace instructions arn't terribly "generic" to
Mark> facilitate use in gcc..)
I am not talking about using new 440/Book E instructions. I am just
referring to generic optimizations such as scheduling instructions to
fit the 440's pipelines as well an possible. Clearly this would
involve work on gcc, and I am just wondering if anyone has done this.
Thanks,
Roland
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