Re: RFC: additions to the machine-definition language

[Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at redhat dot com>]

On May  7, 2001, Dan Nicolaescu <dann@godzilla.ICS.UCI.EDU> wrote:

> The implemented features are: 

> (define-register "REGNAME")
> (define-register-class (REGISTER_LIST))
> (define-pic-offset-table-reg "REGNAME")
> (define-arg-pointer-reg "REGNAME")
> (define-frame-pointer-reg "REGNAME")
> (define-fixed-registers "REGNAME")
> (define-call-used-registers "REGNAME")
> (define-reg-alloc-order REGISTER_LIST OR REG_CLASS_LIST)
> (define-leaf-reg-alloc-order REGISTER_LIST OR REG_CLASS_LIST)

Most of these can already be defined with define_constants, but you
don't always want to do it.  Think, for example, of a multi-ISA
back-end that uses a different frame-pointer register for each ISA.
You'd have to express a conditional in the define.  Not that this is
too hard to do, but it's probably more cumbersome, and negates part of
the benefit of moving the definitions to the md file.

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