[cfe-dev] PPC asm register definitions

[Mike Stump]

On Sep 14, 2009, at 3:01 PM, Richard Pennington wrote:
> I filed bug http://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=4976 this morning.  
> Dale
> Johannesen mentioned that "3" is not a valid register name

Actually, he didn't say exactly that.  He said that there is a bug in  
llvm that prevents "3" from working.

> for the LLVM  PPC code generator, it wants "r3".
>
> Should I change Targets.cpp to use "r0"... instead?

I think it would be reasonable to add r0 as the canonical spelling (I  
don't think any assemblers we support can't support r0, do they?), but  
a ppc assembly expert might have a better idea.  Note, we still have  
to support 3 as a register name, you can't just remove it.

> Also, the names GCCReg* don't seem right. Wouldn't LLVMRegNames* fit  
> better?

The naming comes from gcc's naming convention.  This convention is at  
times necessary to follow as these names can be exposed in the source  
code.  Changing it to LLVMRegNames just obscures that fact.