Re: naming conventions on opcodes

2001-09-18 Thread Damien Neil
On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 07:52:06PM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote: > More to the point, it needs typing exactly twice--once in the .ops file > that defines the opcode function body, and once in opcode_table. The > assembler, of course, uses the smaller name. Three times: And once to name the test ca

Re: naming conventions on opcodes

2001-09-18 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 04:31 PM 9/18/2001 -0700, Dave Storrs wrote: > So, yes, you'd get 'mul_i_ic_ic', but who cares? It's not really >that hard to type, and it is absolutely unambiguous. If you want to make >the interpreter magically deduce the full opcode name from the prefix, >that's cool, too. More to

naming conventions on opcodes

2001-09-18 Thread Dave Storrs
There was a thread on this recently, but I'm not sure what was resolved. Do we have a standard naming convention for opcodes? Personally, I'd like to see that we stick with (what I thought was) the original plan: a nice, simple ruleset that produces long but predictable names. - the opc