Re: [RFA] SSE register type fix

Andrew Cagney
2002-05-17T20:07:06Z

> I know zilch about SSE registers, but the gdbtypes.c and gdbtypes.h
> changes make sense and are approved....
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> Hey, how about some kind soul adding tests for these registers in the
> new gdb.arch directory? I think it would be possible to clone the
> altivec-regs files.

As an aside, what should happen to the push_arguments used by i386(I
think it uses the generic one). That should probably be made vector aware?

Andrew