ARM GCC compiler issue

Tim Rowledge tim at sumeru.stanford.edu
Mon Feb 25 01:59:53 UTC 2002


Dan Ingalls <Dan at SqueakLand.org> is claimed by the authorities to have written:

> If this is the problem, and the instruction is unique and identifiable, you might try the same trick we use to make the interpreter on the Mac go faster. 
>
This is devious, evil, unprincipled and brilliant. It might even work.

The instruction you need to look for is movfd f4,f0. I'd suggest
replacing it with mov r0,r0. You'll need to do it for every function
preamble.

tim
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