Re: [Jikesrvm-core] Why JTOC for floats?

[David P G. <gr...@us...>]

The PPC instruction set does not have an instruction to create a literal 
value in a FP register.  Therefore the choices are (1) load it from memory 
or (2) create it in a GPR and then store/load it to memory to get it into 
a FP register.  Every compiler for PPC that I know of (including Jikes 
RVM) does option 1.

--dave