Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/4] tcg: Add debug facilities for TCGv

[Peter Maydell]

On 10 December 2011 09:02, Andreas Färber <address@hidden> wrote:
> Working on 16- and 20-bit targets using TARGET_LONG_BITS == 32, I found it too
> easy to accidentally use, e.g., tcg_temp_free() in place of 
> tcg_temp_free_i32().
> In case of 78k0/rl78 it may not practically matter yet, but it complicates
> going from a 32-bit target to 64 bits, as in the case of arm.
>
> This series refactors TCG code to allow using a dedicated struct for TCGv,
> to make variable type mismatches show up as compilation errors.

What mismatches does this catch that the existing debug code doesn't?

I've always assumed that "TCGv is shorthand for either TCGv_32 or TCGv_64
depending on your target's word length" was a feature, not a bug.
If we don't like that we should just drop TCGv completely, no?

-- PMM