From: Doug Evans <dje@transmeta.com>
To: Ben Elliston <bje@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com>,
<gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com>, <cgen@sources.redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Sim] Patch to sim/common/cgen-ops.h
Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2000 10:53:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <14891.59391.397233.55439@casey.transmeta.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0012041725200.4024-100000@moshpit.cygnus.com>
Ben Elliston writes:
> > Why is CGEN follow the GCC convention of SI, UI, BI, ZI, NFI, rather
> > than the sim-common convention of signed8, unsigned64, ...
>
> 'cus cgen rtl is based on gcc rtl and I like having the types be the
> same in the emitted code as in the rtl.
>
> I think Andrew was asking why the rtl uses these names. Using other names
> for the modes would not preclude the use of an rtl, it just wouldn't look
> like GCC's. Is that a bad thing, given that it would allow the programmer
> to be more explicit about data representation on the target side?
Andrew may have just been refering to the name choice used in the
generated code. Either way, this is just a naming choice issue.
I like the current scheme.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-12-04 10:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <200012040402.eB442Sk23037@scooby.cygnus.com>
2000-12-03 20:12 ` Andrew Cagney
2000-12-03 21:09 ` Doug Evans
2000-12-03 22:27 ` Ben Elliston
2000-12-04 10:53 ` Doug Evans [this message]
2000-12-04 14:31 ` Andrew Cagney
2000-12-04 4:55 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
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