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Re: RFC: A new MIPS64 ABI
- From: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at redhat dot com>
- To: David Daney <ddaney at caviumnetworks dot com>
- Cc: rdsandiford at googlemail dot com, GCC Patches <gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org>, "Pinski\, Andrew" <Andrew dot Pinski at caviumnetworks dot com>
- Date: Fri, 06 May 2011 04:01:05 -0300
- Subject: Re: RFC: A new MIPS64 ABI
- References: <4D5990A4.2050308__41923.1521235362$1297715435$gmane$org@caviumnetworks.com> <87hbbxqihm.fsf@firetop.home> <4D6301ED.7040509@caviumnetworks.com>
Reviewing some old e-mail...
On Feb 21, 2011, David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com> wrote:
> Everything identical to n32, except Pmode == DImode and
> POINTERS_EXTEND_UNSIGNED == true.
> Here is a patch that allows me to generate plausible looking assembly
> for trivial programs.
Neat!
Just one suggestion: instead of NB32 (what does that stand for?) how
about naming it u32? It's shorter, clear (to me), and there's the fun
factor that the lower-case u looks like an upside-down n.
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