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Re: Proposed targets to deprecate for 3.4
- From: "Zack Weinberg" <zack at codesourcery dot com>
- To: Richard dot Earnshaw at arm dot com
- Cc: neroden at twcny dot rr dot com (Nathanael Nerode), gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2003 11:01:50 -0700
- Subject: Re: Proposed targets to deprecate for 3.4
- References: <200310010852.h918q5Y26327@pc960.cambridge.arm.com>
Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha@arm.com> writes:
> zack@codesourcery.com said:
>> In all cases, a letter appearing is the desirable case; no letter is
>> the undesirable case;
>
>> Q Integer registers are at least 64 bits wide.
> ...
>> q Port can use LP64 mode integer arithmetic.
>
> In precisely what way does having 64-bit registers make a target "more
> desirable"?
Only in so far as such targets are probably newer, more interesting
hardware. I *said* some of these were trivial.
Obviously 'q' without 'Q', and several other possible combinations,
are silly.
zw