From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 24772 invoked by alias); 5 Mar 2002 19:18:41 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 24657 invoked from network); 5 Mar 2002 19:18:35 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.redhat.com) (216.138.202.10) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 5 Mar 2002 19:18:35 -0000 Received: from cygnus.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 935113CBA; Tue, 5 Mar 2002 14:18:34 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3C851A0A.5060100@cygnus.com> Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2002 11:18:00 -0000 From: Andrew Cagney User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; NetBSD macppc; en-US; rv:0.9.8) Gecko/20020210 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cgd@broadcom.com Cc: cagney@redhat.com, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [MIPS sim PATCH] Remove SIGNEXTEND. References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2002-03/txt/msg00053.txt.bz2 > Hi Andrew, want your opinion as MIPS sim co-maintainer on this one: > > The SIGNEXTEND macro is no longer used by the MIPS sim code in the > public sources. (I replaced all uses with uses of EXTENDnn, which IMO > are preferred since they are sim/common macros and their use eats less > screen real estate. 8-) > > If it's not a problem for you, I'd like to remove the SIGNEXTEND macro > entirely. (I figure, it might be a problem because maybe you've got > code in your private mips sim which uses SIGNEXTEND and can't be > converted to use EXTENDnn.) > > What do you think? Even if it is technically a problem for me, that isn't a reason to not pull the macro. I don't think it is reasonable for me to hold up a cleanup like this because it breaks some un-released code. Yes feel free to commit it. Andrew