[LLVMdev] Re: TableGen: RegisterClass question

[Vladimir Prus]

Chris Lattner wrote:

>>  // RegType - Specify the ValueType of the registers in this register
>>  // class. Note that all registers in a register class must have the same
>>  // ValueType.
>>  list<ValueType> RegTypes = regTypes;
>>
>> The comment seems out of date -- it says that only one type is allowed,
>> while list is used.
> 
> Thanks, fixed!
> 
>> Can somebody explain what would it mean for a register
>> class to have several allowed ValueTypes?
> 
> This is useful for targets where multiple types of the same size can be
> held in the same registers.  For example, if the target has a unified
> register file for Int/FP, it could have [i64, f64].  In practice, this is
> most useful for vector types, the X86 backend has [v16i8, v8i16, v4i32,
> v2i64, v4f32, v2f64].

Understood. How about the attached patch to clarify this in comment?

- Volodya
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