Joseph S. Myers wrote:
Yes. For SPE, the subregs used in these *frob_* patterns represent concepts including the high-part of a register (only used by certain instructions that treat registers as 64 bits) and a DImode value stored in one 64-bit register (normal layout is in two) or a DFmode value on E500v2 stored in the low parts of two registers (normal layout is in one register). That is, the subregs of hard registers cannot be represented as single regs because they represent data laid out in registers in a different way from how a single reg in that mode is interpreted. This works fine given the subreg_info infrastructure I added.
Let me ask a stupid question. Do you need to use the rtx code SUBREG for this at all, or would an UNSPEC work just as well? In other words, do these SUBREGs appear in other insns, or are they restricted to just these patterns?
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