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From: Eric Botcazou <ebotcazou@adacore.com>
To: Richard Henderson <rth@redhat.com>
Cc: gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org, Richard Guenther <rguenther@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH][RFC][1/2] Bitfield lowering, add BIT_FIELD_EXPR
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 18:10:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201106161924.52675.ebotcazou@adacore.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4DFA3421.6020603@redhat.com>

> I think this would be clearer with a name like DEPOSIT_EXPR,
> similar to the ia64 deposit instruction.

ia64's demise wasn't entirely undeserved then.  IMO the descriptive power of
DEPOSIT_EXPR is almost null.  BIT_FIELD_MODIFY_EXPR or something like this.

-- 
Eric Botcazou

  reply	other threads:[~2011-06-16 17:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-06-16 11:46 Richard Guenther
2011-06-16 12:06 ` Jay Foad
2011-06-16 17:18 ` Richard Henderson
2011-06-16 18:10   ` Eric Botcazou [this message]
2011-06-16 19:23     ` Richard Guenther
2011-06-16 19:53       ` Richard Henderson
2011-06-20 14:23   ` William J. Schmidt
2011-06-20 19:09     ` Andrew Pinski
2011-06-20 21:03       ` Richard Guenther
2011-06-20 21:05         ` Andrew Pinski
2011-06-19 23:45 ` William J. Schmidt
2011-06-20 13:44   ` Michael Matz

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