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Commit ddc83d41 authored by Julian Seward's avatar Julian Seward
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[project @ 2000-01-25 10:25:15 by sewardj]

Add missing final paragraph of explaination about x86 FP trickery.
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......@@ -463,6 +463,12 @@ FP stack, the operation done, and the result copied back into the
relevant register. There are only six %fake registers because 2 are
needed for the translation, and x86 has 8 in total.
The translation is inefficient but is simple and it works. A cleverer
translation would handle a sequence of insns, simulating the FP stack
contents, would not impose a fixed mapping from %fake to %st regs, and
hopefully could avoid most of the redundant reg-reg moves of the
current translation.
\begin{code}
#if i386_TARGET_ARCH
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