From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:54235) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ra7Ix-00036M-GS for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 12 Dec 2011 09:56:40 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ra7Iw-00056m-El for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 12 Dec 2011 09:56:35 -0500 Received: from relay1.mentorg.com ([192.94.38.131]:63197) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ra7Iw-00056X-Ab for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 12 Dec 2011 09:56:34 -0500 From: Paul Brook Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 14:56:30 +0000 References: <1323521895-26693-1-git-send-email-andreas.faerber@web.de> <201112112342.59003.paul@codesourcery.com> <4EE5CE49.1030405@web.de> In-Reply-To: <4EE5CE49.1030405@web.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201112121456.30527.paul@codesourcery.com> Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC 0/6] target-i386: TCGv cleanups List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Andreas =?utf-8?q?F=C3=A4rber?= Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org > Am 12.12.2011 00:42, schrieb Paul Brook: > >> This series makes target-i386 compile with DEBUG_TCGV_TL. > > > > What benefit does this provide? > > It showcases what changes would need to be done to allow type-safe > compilation of the first pair of --enable-system targets. How is the existing code not type safe? What benefit does making TCGv a separate type rather than an alias for either _i32 or _i64 give? Paul