Re: [RFA] SSE register type fix

[Elena Zannoni <ezannoni at redhat dot com>]

Martin M. Hunt writes:
 > On Friday 17 May 2002 12:45 pm, Elena Zannoni wrote:
 > 
 > > 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.
 > 
 > There is still x86-64-tdep.c. 
 > 

Ah, too bad.

 > > 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.
 > 
 > vec128SSE2 vec128_sse2 
 > 

I prefer the second form.  But then, the altivec type should become
vec128_altivec. But it couldn't be reused by other targets if
needed.  Messy. Maybe just have a gigantic vec128 union with all the
possible combinations? Don't know. 

Elena


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 > Martin Hunt
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