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George Koehler b90c97b00b Teach top to merge or delete "addi sp, sp, X".
This reduces code size, because ncg emits too many "addi sp, sp, X"
instructions when unstacking things.  Now top lowers "addi sp, sp, X"
by lifting other instructions.  This sometimes creates chances to
merge or delete _addi_ instructions.  If no such chance is found, the
_addi_ remains uselessly lowered.

Edit ncg/table to remove something that top now does.

Edit ncg/mach.c to remove some spaces after commas.  This removes a
whitespace difference between *.s and *.so files, because top removes
the space.
2018-01-05 17:55:50 -05:00
George Koehler 5f2a7b260f Optimize mr. X, X after some instructions.
For example, when ncg emits
    slw r9,r8,r5
    mr. r9,r9
then top simplifies the code to
    slw. r9,r8,r5
2017-12-22 22:32:16 -05:00
George Koehler 1dfd5524e4 In PowerPC top, don't delete addi r0, r0, 0
Also don't delete addis r0, r0, 0.  These instructions are special
cases that set r0 to zero.  If we delete them, then r0 keeps its old
value.

I caught this bug because osxppc protects the .text segment against
writing.  (linuxppc doesn't protect it.)  A program tried to set r0 to
the NULL pointer, but top deleted the instruction, so r0 kept an old
return address pointing into .text.  Later the program checked that r0
wasn't NULL, tried to write to address r0, and crashed.
2017-01-26 12:44:32 -05:00
David Given 8c3670483f Get top working with the PowerPC; use it to eliminate useless branches and
moves.
2016-10-29 23:37:11 +02:00
David Given f67c98e239 Distributions are a pain --- let's not bother any more. Instead, we just tag
the repository and download a complete snapshot, old and ancient stuff and all.
2016-09-02 23:00:38 +02:00
dtrg 4dd1ff6d80 Archival checkin (semi-working code). 2007-11-02 18:56:58 +00:00