Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 01/10] target-arm: Don't use TCGv when we mean TCGv_i32

[Richard Henderson]

On 05/23/2013 04:59 AM, Peter Maydell wrote:
> TCGv changes size depending on the compile time value of
> TARGET_LONG_BITS.  This is useful for generating code for MIPS style
> "instructions are the same but the register width changes" CPUs, and
> also for the generic bits of QEMU which operate on "width of a
> virtual address" values, but mostly in the ARM target code we were
> using it purely as a shorthand for "any 32 bit value".
> 
> This needs to change in preparation for AArch64 support, since an
> AArch64-capable v8 core will have 64 bit virtual addresses but still
> use 32 bit values for the 32 bit instruction set.
> 
> This patch mechanically converts all the occurrences of TCGv,
> tcg_temp_new(), tcg_temp_free(), tcg_temp_local_new() and
> TCGV_UNUSED() to their explicitly 32 bit counterparts.  This is
> correct for everything except the arguments to tcg_gen_qemu_{ld,st}*,
> which really do need to be TCGv and so will require a 32-to-64
> conversion when building the 32 bit code for AArch64.  Those changes
> will be in a separate patch for easier review.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <address@hidden>
> ---
>  target-arm/translate.c |  453 
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------------
>  1 file changed, 229 insertions(+), 224 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <address@hidden>


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