Hi Richard,

Sorry this too me so long to get back to.

On Thu, Sep 12, 2019 at 08:51:59AM +0100, Richard Sandiford wrote:
> Segher Boessenkool <seg...@kernel.crashing.org> writes:
> > On Wed, Sep 11, 2019 at 08:08:38PM +0100, Richard Sandiford wrote:
> >>        hard_reg_set_iterator hrsi;
> >> -      EXECUTE_IF_SET_IN_HARD_REG_SET (regs_invalidated_by_call, 0, i, 
> >> hrsi)
> >> +      EXECUTE_IF_SET_IN_HARD_REG_SET (abi.full_and_partial_reg_clobbers 
> >> (),
> >> +                                0, i, hrsi)
> >
> > So "abi" in that means calls?
> 
> "abi" is the interface of the callee function, taking things like
> function attributes and -fipa-ra into account.
> 
> The register sets are describing what the callee does rather than
> what calls to it do.  E.g. on targets that allow linker stubs to be
> inserted between calls, the scratch registers reserved for linker stubs
> are still call-clobbered, even if the target of the call doesn't use
> them.  (Those call clobbers are represented separately, at least when
> TARGET_CALL_FUSAGE_CONTAINS_NON_CALLEE_CLOBBERS is true.  When it's
> false we don't use -fipa-ra information at all.)
> 
> > It is not such a great name like that.  Since its children are
> > very_long_names, it doesn't need to be only three chars itself,
> > either?
> 
> OK, what name would you prefer?

Maybe call_abi is a good name?  It's difficult to capture the subtleties
in a short enough name.  As always :-)


Segher

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