[cfe-dev] A proposed path for PPC registers was Re: PPC asm register definitions

[Chris Lattner]

On Sep 15, 2009, at 4:06 AM, Richard Pennington wrote:

> Chris Lattner wrote:
>> "3" is probably valid on ppc targets that don't use "r" prefixes on  
>> their registers.  Is that the case?  clang can convert asm  
>> constraints as needed to make the llvm backend happy.
>
> I've attached a proposed patch for clang's Targets.cpp. I don't have  
> commit permission for clang so could someone take a look and apply  
> it if it is appropriate?

I don't know if it's good or not, but I applied it in r82009.  People  
who care about ppc in clang should speak up if they don't like it :)

-Chris