On 03/09/2016 08:45 AM, Woon yung Liu wrote:
3. due to the current register size (UNITS_PER_WORD) definition, allocating
a TI mode register will cause two consecutive registers to be allocated instead
(like the HILO pseudo register) of one (other than just being wrong, it is
probably wasteful).
Due to number 3, that also means that I cannot actually properly implement
support for any vector mode because they're all 128-bit vectors. :(
Why do you believe that not using TImode precludes you implementing any vector
support? I don't think you need to touch TImode at all. Just implement
V16QImode, V8HImode and maybe V4SImode.
These modes can be special cased within mips_hard_regno_nregs and
mips_class_max_nregs to only consume one register.
The LQ/SQ instructions, if not used with the other MMI instructions, could
also be used to speed up memory copying. But they operate on the full
128-bit GPRs, and are hence unusable without a 128-bit mode.
But you'll have at least one 128-bit mode (and maybe 3).
The memcpy expander will simply have to be taught to use them.
r~
