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From: chris@umcp-cs.UUCP (Chris Torek)
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Subject: Re: Code Generation
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Date: Thu, 21-Nov-85 22:12:33 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov 21 22:12:33 1985
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In article <3457@brl-tgr.ARPA> cottrell@nbs-vms.arpa (COTTRELL, JAMES) writes:

> /* Key: >> Ron Natalie, > Chris Torek
> > You can indeed apply
> > registers to `short's and `char's and even `float's and `double's;
> > it is merely much more difficult to get the code generation right.

> Why is that? For the moment lets forget about the floating types.

PCC seems to want to convert all expressions of type `short' and
`char' before looking them up in its opcode tables.  You would have
to rip that out, which would require matching changes in all the
support routines.  That is an awful lot of changes....
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