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From: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
To: "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph@codesourcery.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@hack.frob.com>, libc-ports@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH roland/arm-memchr] ARM: Make armv6t2 memchr implementation usable without Thumb.
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2013 06:09:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <513EC685.1020803@twiddle.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.1303120026480.21125@digraph.polyomino.org.uk>

On 2013-03-11 17:30, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Mar 2013, Roland McGrath wrote:
>
>> This changes the memchr implementation to be usable without Thumb.
>
> I'm not clear on how the register allocation changes relate to making this
> implementation usable without Thumb.
>

This re ldrd.  ARM mode requires r2 = r + 1, and r even.
Thumb2 allows arbitrary r2.


r~

  reply	other threads:[~2013-03-12  6:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-03-11 23:31 Roland McGrath
2013-03-12  0:30 ` Joseph S. Myers
2013-03-12  6:09   ` Richard Henderson [this message]
2013-03-12 15:58     ` Joseph S. Myers
2013-03-12 17:07       ` [PATCH 1/2 roland/arm-memchr] ARM: Change register allocation in armv6t2 memchr implementation Roland McGrath
2013-03-12 23:20         ` Joseph S. Myers
2013-03-13  0:06           ` Roland McGrath
2013-03-12 17:08       ` [PATCH 2/2 roland/arm-memchr] ARM: Make armv6t2 memchr implementation usable without Thumb Roland McGrath
2013-03-12 23:21         ` Joseph S. Myers

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