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please review.

Thanks & Regards
Jeevitha

On 25/08/23 7:49 am, Peter Bergner wrote:
> On 8/24/23 12:35 PM, Michael Meissner wrote:
>> On Thu, Jul 20, 2023 at 10:05:28AM +0530, jeevitha wrote:
>>> gcc/
>>>     PR target/110411
>>>     * config/rs6000/rs6000.h (enum rs6000_builtin_type_index): Add fields
>>>     to hold PTImode type.
>>>     * config/rs6000/rs6000-builtin.cc (rs6000_init_builtins): Add node
>>>     for PTImode type.
>>
>> It is good as far as it goes, but I suspect we will eventually need to extend
>> it.  In particular, the reason people need PTImode is they need the even/odd
>> register layout.  What you've done enables users to declare this value.
> 
> Sure, it could be extended, but that is not what this patch is about.
> It's purely to allow the kernel team access to the guaranteed even/odd
> register layout for some inline asm code.  Any extension would be a
> follow-on patch to this.
> 
> 
> 
> On 8/9/23 3:48 AM, Kewen.Lin wrote:
>> IIUC, this builtin type registering makes this type expose to users, so
>> I wonder if we want to actually expose this type for users' uses.
>> If yes, we need to update the documentation (and not sure if the current
>> name is good enough); otherwise, I wonder if there is some existing
>> practice to declare a builtin type with a name which users can't actually
>> use and is just for shadowing a mode.
> 
> Segher, Mike, Jeevitha and I talked about the patch and Segher mentioned
> that under some conditions, it's fine to keep the type undocumented.
> Hopefully he'll weigh in on whether this particular patch is one of
> those cases or not.  
> 
> 
> Peter

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