This is the mail archive of the
binutils@sourceware.org
mailing list for the binutils project.
Re: [PATCH 04/20] MIPS/GAS: Spell out 0 referring to $0 as ZERO
On Thu, 2 Dec 2010, Paul Koning wrote:
> > Here is a (supposedly) exhaustive change to macro() that makes $0
> > register references in macro_build() and move_register() calls to be
> > spelled as ZERO for better clarity and difference to places where an
> > immediate value of 0 is referred to. I have not changed other places,
> > typically pieces of code like:
> >
> > treg = 0;
> >
> > or:
> >
> > if (sreg == 0)
> >
> > whose reference to $0 is obvious.
>
> I wouldn't say those are a whole lot more obvious than the ones you did
> change...
These variables refer to registers and their names make it unambiguous,
but feel free to propose a follow-on patch -- I won't object such a
change.
Maciej