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2SparcV8 backend skeleton
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5This directory houses a 32-bit SPARC V8 backend employing a expander-based
6instruction selector.  It is not yet functionally complete.  Watch
7this space for more news coming soon!
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9Current shootout results as of 28-Sept-2004
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12Working: ackermann fib2 hash hello lists matrix methcall nestedloop
13         sieve strcat random ary3 
14Broken: heapsort (and objinst??)
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16To-do
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19* support ADJCALLSTACK{UP,DOWN} pseudoinstrs around calls
20* support calling functions with more than 6 args
21* support 64-bit integer (long, ulong) arguments to functions
22* support setcc on longs
23* support basic binary operations on longs
24* support casting <=32-bit integers, bools to long
25* support casting 64-bit integers to FP types
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