Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/4] tcg: Add muluh and mulsh opcodes

2013-08-27 Thread Richard Henderson
Ping. r~ On 08/17/2013 04:26 PM, Richard Henderson wrote: > We have -- or will have -- several targets which have a native > multiply-highpart instruction: ppc*, ia64, aarch64, alpha. > > If we leave only the mul[us]2 opcode with which to expose this, > we have to handle the register allocation

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/4] tcg: Add muluh and mulsh opcodes

2013-08-17 Thread Richard Henderson
We have -- or will have -- several targets which have a native multiply-highpart instruction: ppc*, ia64, aarch64, alpha. If we leave only the mul[us]2 opcode with which to expose this, we have to handle the register allocation bits in the backends. Better, IMO, to expose the two parts at the TCG