From: Luis Machado via Gdb-patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
To: Alan Hayward <Alan.Hayward@arm.com>
Cc: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>, nd <nd@arm.com>,
"gdb-patches\\@sourceware.org" <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] [ARM] Refactor pseudo register numbering
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2021 10:06:21 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ced24220-fd63-ff66-911a-8a7f5313dac7@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AED85EB2-91EA-469B-B848-9DDD14C317FE@arm.com>
On 10/8/21 1:04 PM, Alan Hayward wrote:
> This is similar to AArch64 target, so mostly Lgtm...
>
>> On 5 Oct 2021, at 15:45, Luis Machado <luis.machado@linaro.org> wrote:
>>
>> The pseudo register handling for ARM uses some hardcoded constants to
>> determine types and names. In preparation to the upcoming MVE support
>> patch (that will add another pseudo register), this patch refactors and
>> reorganizes things in order to simplify handling of future pseudo registers.
>>
>> We keep track of the first pseudo register number in a group and the number of
>> pseudo registers in that group.
>>
>> Right now we only have the S and Q pseudo registers.
>
> Renaming NEON to Q makes sense.
>
> Why not rename VFP to S?
Yeah, might as well, since it makes more sense. I'll do it before pushing.
Thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-10-11 13:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-10-05 14:45 [PATCH 0/4] [ARM] M-profile MVE extension support Luis Machado via Gdb-patches
2021-10-05 14:45 ` [PATCH 1/4] [ARM] Refactor some constants Luis Machado via Gdb-patches
2021-10-08 16:03 ` Alan Hayward via Gdb-patches
2021-10-05 14:45 ` [PATCH 2/4] [ARM] Small refactoring of arm gdbarch initialization Luis Machado via Gdb-patches
2021-10-08 16:03 ` Alan Hayward via Gdb-patches
2021-10-05 14:45 ` [PATCH 3/4] [ARM] Refactor pseudo register numbering Luis Machado via Gdb-patches
2021-10-08 16:04 ` Alan Hayward via Gdb-patches
2021-10-11 13:06 ` Luis Machado via Gdb-patches [this message]
2021-10-05 14:45 ` [PATCH 4/4] [ARM] Add support for M-profile MVE extension Luis Machado via Gdb-patches
2021-10-05 15:55 ` Eli Zaretskii via Gdb-patches
2021-10-08 16:34 ` Alan Hayward via Gdb-patches
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