Re: WIP: Register doco

Andrew Cagney
2002-07-25T15:13:42Z

> Andrew Cagney <ac131313@ges.redhat.com> writes:
>
>> Given we're struggling amonst ourselves with the IA-32 I think that
>> suggests it is a very poor choice for an example. Especially given
>> there are better cleaner examples to be had using other familar
>> architectures. I would assume this is why people like H&P chose DLX
>> when describing CPU architectures.
>
>
> It's my understanding that folks disagree about exactly what the raw
> bits should be. But we all agree that the raw registers should
> represent the actual underlying bits only once, and that MMi / ST(j)
> should be cooked registers that alias each other in the right way. Is
> that much, at least, correct?

Yep.

Andrew