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* tm.texi (SMALL_REGISTER_CLASSES): Make description match reality. 

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Fri Dec 4 20:15:57 1998 Bernd Schmidt <crux@pool.informatik.rwth-aachen.de> Fri Dec 4 20:15:57 1998 Bernd Schmidt <crux@pool.informatik.rwth-aachen.de>
* tm.texi (SMALL_REGISTER_CLASSES): Make description match reality.
* final.c (cleanup_subreg_operands): Delete some unused code. * final.c (cleanup_subreg_operands): Delete some unused code.
* recog.h (MAX_RECOG_ALTERNATIVES): New macro. * recog.h (MAX_RECOG_ALTERNATIVES): New macro.

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@ -2022,17 +2022,15 @@ is @code{BITS_PER_WORD} bits wide is correct for your machine.
@findex SMALL_REGISTER_CLASSES @findex SMALL_REGISTER_CLASSES
@item SMALL_REGISTER_CLASSES @item SMALL_REGISTER_CLASSES
Normally the compiler avoids choosing registers that have been On some machines, it is risky to let hard registers live across arbitrary
explicitly mentioned in the rtl as spill registers (these registers are insns. Typically, these machines have instructions that require values
normally those used to pass parameters and return values). However, to be in specific registers (like an accumulator), and reload will fail
some machines have so few registers of certain classes that there if the required hard register is used for another purpose across such an
would not be enough registers to use as spill registers if this were insn.
done.
Define @code{SMALL_REGISTER_CLASSES} to be an expression with a non-zero Define @code{SMALL_REGISTER_CLASSES} to be an expression with a non-zero
value on these machines. When this macro has a non-zero value, the value on these machines. When this macro has a non-zero value, the
compiler allows registers explicitly used in the rtl to be used as spill compiler will try to minimize the lifetime of hard registers.
registers but avoids extending the lifetime of these registers.
It is always safe to define this macro with a non-zero value, but if you It is always safe to define this macro with a non-zero value, but if you
unnecessarily define it, you will reduce the amount of optimizations unnecessarily define it, you will reduce the amount of optimizations