+2002-01-25 Nick Clifton <nickc@cambridge.redhat.com>
+
+ * config/arm/arm.c (arm_hard_regno_mode_ok): Allow any general
+ purpose register to hold an SImode (or smaller) value.
+
2002-01-25 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>
* unwind-dw2-fde-glibc.c: If inhibit_libc, use __register_frame*
return (NUM_REGS (mode) < 2) || (regno < LAST_LO_REGNUM);
if (regno <= LAST_ARM_REGNUM)
- /* If the register is a general purpose ARM register we allow
- it only if it not a special register (SP, LR, PC) and only
- if there will be enough (non-special) registers to hold the
- entire value. */
- {
- /* As a special exception we allow an SImode value to be
- "assigned" to the stack pointer. This is not intended
- to actually allow a value to be stored in the SP, but so
- that the stack pointer can be referenced from C code like
- this:
-
- register char * stack_ptr asm ("sp");
-
- This expression is actually used in newlib... */
- if (mode == SImode && regno == SP_REGNUM)
- return 1;
- return regno < (SP_REGNUM - (unsigned) NUM_REGS (mode));
- }
+ /* We allow an SImode or smaller value to be stored in any
+ general purpose register. This does not mean, for example
+ that GCC will choose to store a variable in the stack pointer
+ since it is a fixed register. But it is important to allow
+ access to these special registers, so that they can be
+ referenced from C code via the asm assembler alias, eg:
+
+ register char * stack_ptr asm ("sp");
+
+ For any mode requiring more than one register to hold the
+ value we restrict the choice so that r13, r14, and r15
+ cannot be part of the register set. */
+ return (NUM_REGS (mode) <= 1)
+ || (regno < (SP_REGNUM - (unsigned) NUM_REGS (mode)));
if ( regno == FRAME_POINTER_REGNUM
|| regno == ARG_POINTER_REGNUM)