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[Fwd: Re: [PATCH] MIPS32 DSP instructions again]

Nigel Stephens nigel@mips.com
Mon Jun 13 21:23:00 GMT 2005 
Eric Christopher wrote:

>>+             case '7': /* four dsp accumulators in bits 11,12 */ 
>>+             if (s[0] == '$' && s[1] == 'a' && s[2] == 'c' &&
>>+                 s[3] >= '0' && s[3] <= '3')
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>Can you change this to be $acc instead of $ac? It'll match with other
>targets better.
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Eric

The MIPS DSP architecture manual uses the $ac syntax, it's also been 
used by other toolchain companies who have updated their assemblers to 
support the DSP ASE, and there's now quite a significant amount of DSP 
assembler code written by various parties which will be using $ac. I'd 
prefer it if we could stick with $ac but, if you insist, then would 
supporting both $ac and $acc as aliases be acceptable?

Nigel
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