Re: gcc compilation patch

[Will N. <wi...@mi...>]

On Monday 01 Mar 2004 9:01 pm, Bruno Haible wrote:
> Thanks. The preference for autoincrement was meant to provide good code
> on m68k with old versions of gcc. Since on i386 with a recent gcc the
> portable alternative is better, I've disabled the #if for all versions
> of gcc since 3.0.

It also looks as if the gcc global register variable bug has been squashed 
(gcc PR #7871), so with 3.4.0 and up we should be able to turn the global 
registers back on. I don't think this issue affected i386, but it did sparc 
and hppa at least.