[MLton] power pc "port"

Stephen Weeks MLton@mlton.org
Mon, 6 Sep 2004 10:31:43 -0700


> I would think in most cases with a sequence of (signed) arithops,
> gcc's optimizer would simply keep the value sign extended in a
> register, but maybe gcc doesn't do as good a job as I would expect.

BTW, if we find that gcc isn't doing such a good job, we could use the
same Ssa optimization that we would use for the native codegen to
force our own representation decisions on gcc.