Re: [RFA] SSE register type fix

Elena Zannoni
2002-05-17T22:25:20Z

Martin M. Hunt writes:
> On Friday 17 May 2002 12:45 pm, Elena Zannoni wrote:
>
> > However... can we now remove the old machinery for creating the old
> > style types? The v4si, v2si, etc types? I think the sse regs were the
> > only ones using it.
>
> There is still x86-64-tdep.c.
>

Ah, too bad.

> > However #2... what's the 'i' in vec128i for? Intel? I would think that 'i'
> > would be more like 'integer', i.e. vectors w/o floating point variants.
> > Maybe we need a new naming scheme. Groan.
>
> vec128SSE2 vec128_sse2
>

I prefer the second form. But then, the altivec type should become
vec128_altivec. But it couldn't be reused by other targets if
needed. Messy. Maybe just have a gigantic vec128 union with all the
possible combinations? Don't know.

Elena

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