From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 02:27:56 -0500 From: Russ Cox To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] 8c (pcc) In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: Topicbox-Message-UUID: 34012baa-eace-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > 1's die with error message : out of fixed registers, while 2's are OK. > Could someone explain, why? > Thanks, regards, > ++pac. apparently the register allocator used for expressions is not doing a good job when it runs out of registers. when you rewrote the expressions to use explicit temporaries, you simplified its job. russ