FW: http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2009-07/msg00484.html

["Jonas Paulsson J" <jonas dot j dot paulsson at ericsson dot com>]

This question is in response to Ian's answer here:

Ref: http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2009-07/msg00462.html


Adding to the referenced inquiry, there are on the machine a condition
codes register for each register.

I would like to model this by writing define_insns in such a way as to
access a register in different modes, i e

r0  |   r1  |  r2
...................
accumulator0

So that QImode would mean r0, HImode r0+r1, and CCmode would mean r2
(the corresponding cc-reg).

Then, something like this might work:

[(set (match_operand:HI 0 "register_operand" "=a")
               (minus:HI (match_operand:HI 1 "register_operand" "a")
                         (match_operand:HI 2 "register_operand" "a"))
          )
 	 (clobber (match_operand:CC 3 "register_operand" "=0")) ]

This way, GCC would always clobber the corresponding cc-register.

Is this possible to implement, in terms of defining a new mode? The
trick would be to add a new register next to the register-pair in the
hard registers definition array, so as to always reference the cc-reg
with an offsetting mode.

I tried this a bit, but reload would refuse it.

I would appreciate comments on this,

/Jonas Paulsson,
LTH, Sweden
(Thesis project)