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Re: Patch for md.texi: Fix i386 constraints
- To: Andreas Jaeger <aj at suse dot de>, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Subject: Re: Patch for md.texi: Fix i386 constraints
- From: Kelley Cook <kelley dot cook at home dot com>
- Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 10:07:58 -0400
>2001-04-22 Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.de>
>
>* md.texi (Machine Constraints): Document additional i386
> constraints and fix description of "A".
>
>...
>
>+@samp{a} and @samp{d} register used together to store 64-bit ints. The
>+@samp{a} register will store the most significand 32-bits, the @samp{d}
>+register the least significand 32-bits.
Andreas,
A minor english nit: It should be "significant" bits.
"Significand" is a noun which refers to the mantissa in a binary floating
point representation.
Kelley Cook