Proposed targets to deprecate for 3.4

Zack Weinberg zack@codesourcery.com
Wed Oct 1 18:01:00 GMT 2003


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



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