Re: gcc support of mips32 release 2

[Dominic Sweetman <dom@mips.com>]

I wrote:

> > We added patterns to let our (old) GCC use the new rotates and
> > bit-insert/extracts, at least in simple cases.  I'm not sure whether
> > we've put those in our 3.4 evolution tree yet, but if we have we
> > should push those out.

Long Li (long21st@yahoo.com) replied:

> Thanks for the email. Could you give me a link to your
> 3.4 evolution tree?

Interesting.  It's not as simple as I'd like: our 3.4 work is not yet
published, and I'm pretty sure it includes support for hardware etc we
haven't generally released details of yet.

Nigel (our main gcc expert) is on vacation this week.  In his absence,
David: do you know whether the rotate/insert stuff is in 3.4 yet?

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Dominic