Re: [rfa/arm] Eliminate REGISTER_CONVERTIBLE() from ARM

[Andrew Cagney <ac131313 at cygnus dot com>]

> Andrew Cagney wrote:
> 
>> 
>> Hello,
>> 
>> The attatched eliminates the macros:
>> REGISTER_CONVERTIBLE()
>> REGISTER_CONVERT_TO_RAW()
>> REGISTER_CONVERT_TO_VIRTUAL()
>> for the ARM target.  Instead REGISTER_VIRTUAL_TYPE() returns what I'm
>> *guessing* is the true type of the register.
>> 
>> ok to commit?
>> Andrew
>> 
> 
> 
> Andrew, I will have to apply your patch and run some tests.  And we need
> to hear from the Linux/ARM folks as well.
> 
> Or have you run the testsuite against a, lets say, arm-elf target
> already
> (ARMulator is enough)?

I'll get there.  However, I suspect the results will be pretty 
meanginless.  When I last touched that code (to ``fix'' the register FP 
types to be arm_ext) I found the results went sideways - a host{be,le} 
VS targ{be,le} table showed improvements in some cases but no change in 
others :-/

Andrew