From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2] simplify global register save/restore
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 14:05:40 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B87C724.1030507@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201002261130.30888.paul@codesourcery.com>
On 02/26/2010 12:30 PM, Paul Brook wrote:
>> Since b567b38 (target-arm: remove T0 and T1, 2009-10-16) the only global
>> register that is actually used is AREG0, so the complexity of
>> hostregs_helper.h is unwarranted.
>>
>> Let's just say that env should be the only global register. AREG1 and
>> AREG2 in principle could still be used to work around bad register
>> allocation in GCC, so I'm leaving them in dyngen-exec.h.
>
> I think AREG[12] should be removed too. If we aren't saving them then they
> can't be safely used.
You could still use them for local register variables, but I can prepare
a patch to remove them (unless you do that yourself).
Paolo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-02-26 13:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-02-10 23:26 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2] simplify global register save/restore Paolo Bonzini
2010-02-10 23:26 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/2] remove dead m68k global register definitions Paolo Bonzini
2010-02-10 23:26 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2] get rid of hostregs_helper.h Paolo Bonzini
2010-02-18 19:07 ` Blue Swirl
2010-02-18 20:25 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 1/2] remove dead m68k definitions Paolo Bonzini
2010-02-18 20:25 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 2/2] get rid of hostregs_helper.h Paolo Bonzini
2010-02-18 21:28 ` [Qemu-devel] " Blue Swirl
2010-02-25 11:40 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-02-25 12:50 ` Paolo Bonzini
2010-02-25 13:04 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-02-25 13:11 ` Paolo Bonzini
2010-02-13 17:58 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2] simplify global register save/restore Blue Swirl
2010-02-13 20:26 ` [Qemu-devel] " Paolo Bonzini
2010-02-13 20:57 ` Blue Swirl
2010-02-13 20:58 ` Paolo Bonzini
2010-02-26 11:30 ` [Qemu-devel] " Paul Brook
2010-02-26 13:05 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2010-02-26 18:32 ` Paul Brook
2010-03-01 12:30 ` Paolo Bonzini
2010-03-01 14:02 ` Paul Brook
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