Message ID | 20230913005814.413113-1-npiggin@gmail.com |
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Series | target/ppc: Change CR registers from i32 to tl | expand |
On 9/12/23 17:58, Nicholas Piggin wrote: > This is a bit of churn so I might leave it for later in the cycle (or > defer if we get a lot of other changes) since it's a relatively > mechanical change. So don't spend time reviewing details, I'm just > wondering about concept and general approach. > > I'm not sure the history of why these are 32-bit, maybe better code gen > on 32-bit host emulating 64-bit? If so, that shouldn't be so important > now that most people use 64-bit systems to develop and test with. It was probably in order to save space, but I have no specific knowledge. What does this do to the generated code? I suspect, without looking, that it doesn't change things much at all on e.g. a ppc64 host, and for an x86_64 host merely changes the types of some instructions (which, considering the rex64 encoding, might consume a few more bytes). r~