Re: RFA: New builtin SIMD types

[Andrew Cagney <ac131313 at cygnus dot com>]

Jim Blandy wrote:
> 
> These are types that an architecture's REGISTER_VIRTUAL_TYPE macro can
> use for its SIMD registers.  As the comment explains, the names are
> inherited from GCC.

BTW,

I sometimes wonder if there should be a REGISTER_VIRTUAL_NAME() so that
the 1:1 between physical and virtual register names is broken.


> ***************
> *** 2968,2973 ****
> --- 2972,2985 ----
>     /* Build SIMD types.  */
>     builtin_type_v4sf
>       = init_simd_type ("__builtin_v4sf", builtin_type_float, "f", 4);
> +   builtin_type_v4si
> +     = init_simd_type ("__builtin_v4si", builtin_type_int32, "f", 4);
> +   builtin_type_v8qi
> +     = init_simd_type ("__builtin_v8qi", builtin_type_int8, "f", 8);
> +   builtin_type_v4hi
> +     = init_simd_type ("__builtin_v4hi", builtin_type_int16, "f", 4);
> +   builtin_type_v2si
> +     = init_simd_type ("__builtin_v2si", builtin_type_int32, "f", 2);

Looks like it's time for float types equivalent to the int32 et.al.
types.  I've got to add some address types so I might add those as well
:-)

	Andrew