At the risk of bike-shedding... The fact that "nonexistent" is in regular use doesn't mean that "existent" is entirely kosher: http://www.ling.upenn.edu/courses/ling001/mccord.html In the 'sz' fields, I think "nonexistent" is right: it's zero when the registers don't exist. But in rs6000_gdbarch_init, "extant" is a much better word, having the connotations of "already". I've committed the attached.