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<title>GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) Internals: Jump Patterns</title>
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<p>
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Next: <a href="Looping-Patterns.html#Looping-Patterns" accesskey="n" rel="next">Looping Patterns</a>, Previous: <a href="Dependent-Patterns.html#Dependent-Patterns" accesskey="p" rel="prev">Dependent Patterns</a>, Up: <a href="Machine-Desc.html#Machine-Desc" accesskey="u" rel="up">Machine Desc</a> [<a href="index.html#SEC_Contents" title="Table of contents" rel="contents">Contents</a>][<a href="Option-Index.html#Option-Index" title="Index" rel="index">Index</a>]</p>
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<h3 class="section">16.12 Defining Jump Instruction Patterns</h3>
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<a name="index-jump-instruction-patterns"></a>
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<a name="index-defining-jump-instruction-patterns"></a>
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<p>GCC does not assume anything about how the machine realizes jumps.
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The machine description should define a single pattern, usually
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a <code>define_expand</code>, which expands to all the required insns.
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<p>Usually, this would be a comparison insn to set the condition code
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and a separate branch insn testing the condition code and branching
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or not according to its value. For many machines, however,
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separating compares and branches is limiting, which is why the
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more flexible approach with one <code>define_expand</code> is used in GCC.
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The machine description becomes clearer for architectures that
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have compare-and-branch instructions but no condition code. It also
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works better when different sets of comparison operators are supported
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by different kinds of conditional branches (e.g. integer vs. floating-point),
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or by conditional branches with respect to conditional stores.
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<p>Two separate insns are always used if the machine description represents
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a condition code register using the legacy RTL expression <code>(cc0)</code>,
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(see <a href="Condition-Code.html#Condition-Code">Condition Code</a>). For machines that use <code>(cc0)</code>, in
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fact, the set and use of the condition code must be separate and
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adjacent<a name="DOCF4" href="#FOOT4"><sup>4</sup></a>, thus
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allowing flags in <code>cc_status</code> to be used (see <a href="Condition-Code.html#Condition-Code">Condition Code</a>) and
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so that the comparison and branch insns could be located from each other
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<p>Even in this case having a single entry point for conditional branches
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comparison instruction records the results of both signed and unsigned
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signed and unsigned flavors) as in the x86 or SPARC, and the case where
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there are distinct signed and unsigned compare instructions and only
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one set of conditional branch instructions as in the PowerPC.
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<h4 class="footnotes-heading">Footnotes</h4>
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<h3><a name="FOOT4" href="#DOCF4">(4)</a></h3>
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<p><code>note</code> insns can separate them, though.</p>
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Next: <a href="Looping-Patterns.html#Looping-Patterns" accesskey="n" rel="next">Looping Patterns</a>, Previous: <a href="Dependent-Patterns.html#Dependent-Patterns" accesskey="p" rel="prev">Dependent Patterns</a>, Up: <a href="Machine-Desc.html#Machine-Desc" accesskey="u" rel="up">Machine Desc</a> [<a href="index.html#SEC_Contents" title="Table of contents" rel="contents">Contents</a>][<a href="Option-Index.html#Option-Index" title="Index" rel="index">Index</a>]</p>
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