Date: Mon, 17 Oct 94 11:41:20 -0400
From: dj AT stealth DOT ctron DOT com (DJ Delorie)
To: peje AT irf DOT se
Cc: OKRA AT max DOT tiac DOT net, djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Re: this is optimization?


> > 	movl %eax,%edx
> > 	sall %edx,6
> > 	movl %edx,%eax
>  I have seen a post on comp.gcc.compilers a couple of months ago which said
>  that gcc version 2.6.0 had changed its register allocation order making edx
>  the primary working register. I can't check this out myself because I don't
>  have the compiler sources, somebody out there maybe could check it out (DJ?).

Send a *real* short C program that demonstrates this, and I can test
the latest stuff and/or have the test added to the gcc test suite.