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Re: A Far Less Ambitous Altivec patch
- From: Alan Modra <amodra at bigpond dot net dot au>
- To: Hartmut Penner <HPENNER at de dot ibm dot com>
- Cc: Ziemowit Laski <zlaski at apple dot com>, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 22:49:35 +1030
- Subject: Re: A Far Less Ambitous Altivec patch
- References: <OF4FDD494B.29BDD798-ONC1256E1B.00302FCE-C1256E1B.00308601@de.ibm.com>
On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 09:50:06AM +0100, Hartmut Penner wrote:
> I think gas supports %v0 and 0, but not v0.
True for -mno-regnames (the default on linux). With -mregnames, you can
also use the unadorned regs, like v0.
> Alan, any reason, why this is this way ?
I suppose so that you can define and use symbols that happen to look
like a reg name.
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Alan Modra
IBM OzLabs - Linux Technology Centre