From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Jeffrey A Law <law@cygnus.com>
To: Joern Rennecke <amylaar@cygnus.co.uk>
Cc: bcurrie@tssc.co.nz, ak@muc.de, egcs@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: Feature request: ability to describe x86 register halves as contraints. 
Date: Wed, 01 Jul 1998 10:51:00 -0000
Message-id: <22067.899314775@hurl.cygnus.com>
References: <199807011632.RAA30645@phal.cygnus.co.uk>
X-SW-Source: 1998-07/msg00044.html

  In message < 199807011632.RAA30645@phal.cygnus.co.uk >you write:
  > > Seems to me it would need an expression and two integer args -- the
  > > expresion is the data item (ie a register) that we want to operate
  > > on, then start offset (in bits) and width (in bits).
  > 
  > Why is a mode not good enough to represent the size?
I guess that would be OK.  I'm still not convinced it's worth the huge
effort though.
jeff