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  69. <h3 class="section">17.15 Condition Code Status</h3>
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  71. <p>The macros in this section can be split in two families, according to the
  72. two ways of representing condition codes in GCC.
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  74. <p>The first representation is the so called <code>(cc0)</code> representation
  75. (see <a href="Jump-Patterns.html#Jump-Patterns">Jump Patterns</a>), where all instructions can have an implicit
  76. clobber of the condition codes. The second is the condition code
  77. register representation, which provides better schedulability for
  78. architectures that do have a condition code register, but on which
  79. most instructions do not affect it. The latter category includes
  80. most RISC machines.
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  82. <p>The implicit clobbering poses a strong restriction on the placement of
  83. the definition and use of the condition code. In the past the definition
  84. and use were always adjacent. However, recent changes to support trapping
  85. arithmatic may result in the definition and user being in different blocks.
  86. Thus, there may be a <code>NOTE_INSN_BASIC_BLOCK</code> between them. Additionally,
  87. the definition may be the source of exception handling edges.
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  89. <p>These restrictions can prevent important
  90. optimizations on some machines. For example, on the IBM RS/6000, there
  91. is a delay for taken branches unless the condition code register is set
  92. three instructions earlier than the conditional branch. The instruction
  93. scheduler cannot perform this optimization if it is not permitted to
  94. separate the definition and use of the condition code register.
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  96. <p>For this reason, it is possible and suggested to use a register to
  97. represent the condition code for new ports. If there is a specific
  98. condition code register in the machine, use a hard register. If the
  99. condition code or comparison result can be placed in any general register,
  100. or if there are multiple condition registers, use a pseudo register.
  101. Registers used to store the condition code value will usually have a mode
  102. that is in class <code>MODE_CC</code>.
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  104. <p>Alternatively, you can use <code>BImode</code> if the comparison operator is
  105. specified already in the compare instruction. In this case, you are not
  106. interested in most macros in this section.
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  109. <tr><td align="left" valign="top">&bull; <a href="CC0-Condition-Codes.html#CC0-Condition-Codes" accesskey="1">CC0 Condition Codes</a>:</td><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td align="left" valign="top">Old style representation of condition codes.
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