On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 07:23:41PM -0800, Richard Henderson wrote: > Changes since v1: > * No attempt to pack pos+len into one operand. Updated backends > to match this change. > > * Example in the README is a bit more complex. > > * Define an official tcg_scratch_alloc routine, used by the i386 > target for the case in which we need a scratch register. I had > said that triggering this wasn't possible with mainline, but I > was wrong. The rlwimi example I posted in the other thread hits > this case. > > Aurelien suggested using a shorter name like "dep", but I think that > would be more confusing than not. This opcode is not really used > enough to warrent cropping 4 characters, in my opinion.
Thanks Richard. In agreement with Aurelien I've applied patch 1 and 6 as a first step. I've also applied a follow-up patch to fix the copy-pastos in the README (loc -> len). Hopefully as more acks come in, we'll apply the rest. Cheers