From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 23973 invoked by alias); 16 Jun 2011 17:26:09 -0000 Received: (qmail 23929 invoked by uid 22791); 16 Jun 2011 17:26:08 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mel.act-europe.fr (HELO mel.act-europe.fr) (194.98.77.210) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Thu, 16 Jun 2011 17:25:55 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by filtered-smtp.eu.adacore.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B128ACB044B; Thu, 16 Jun 2011 19:25:53 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mel.act-europe.fr ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.eu.adacore.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id svKd4jSt0sfL; Thu, 16 Jun 2011 19:25:50 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [192.168.1.2] (bon31-9-83-155-120-49.fbx.proxad.net [83.155.120.49]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mel.act-europe.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9432FCB0447; Thu, 16 Jun 2011 19:25:50 +0200 (CEST) From: Eric Botcazou To: Richard Henderson Subject: Re: [PATCH][RFC][1/2] Bitfield lowering, add BIT_FIELD_EXPR Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 18:10:00 -0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 Cc: gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org, Richard Guenther References: <4DFA3421.6020603@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <4DFA3421.6020603@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <201106161924.52675.ebotcazou@adacore.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact gcc-patches-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-patches-owner@gcc.gnu.org X-SW-Source: 2011-06/txt/msg01279.txt.bz2 > 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