Re: RFC: hex constants in const_int (plus small altivec problem)

[Andrew Pinski <pinskia at physics dot uc dot edu>]

On Thursday, Dec 19, 2002, at 17:23 US/Pacific, Aldy Hernandez wrote:
> So I have the patch below, but the -2147483648 looks absolutely
> hideous.  I believe this is the right approach, but I'd like
> comments.  If it is ok, I'd like to hack the rtl reader to allow for
> hex constants in .md files, ala:
>
>     (const_int 0x80000000)
>
> Actually, regardless of the altivec problem, I'd like to do this.
> Some things are simpler in hex ;-).
>
> Thoughts?

I was the one who filed both reports knowing that the approach for 
-2147483648
will be generating an extra warning messages in the code.  A way to 
have hex in the
.md files will make sure there is way for no warnings to happen.

Thanks,
Andrew Pinski