[RFA] MIPS: MIPS_LAST_FP_ARG_REGNUM, MIPS_LAST_ARG_REGNUM changes

[Andrew Cagney]

> On May 21, 12:17pm, Andrew Cagney wrote:
> 
> 
>> > This is patch 2 of many more to come.  It depends upon
>> > http://sources.redhat.com/ml/gdb-patches/2003-05/msg00268.html.
>> > 
>> > Okay?
> 
>> 
>> Per my earlier comment, I don't think this one is right.  I don't think 
>> things like LAST_ARG_REGNUM belong in that cooked/raw reg structure. 
>> Instead, they should exist out side it.
>> 
>> If the code really wants to differentiate between the raw and cooked 
>> register number, why not use the more explicit:
>> 
>> 	rawnum->gp0_regnum + tdep->last_arg_regnum
> 
> 
> So, last_arg_regnum represents a count of the number of argument
> registers?

It's an offset from register 0.  However, I think if the first patch is 
sorted out, this will fallout.

Andrew


> That's fine (at the moment anyway) for the GPRs, but it doesn't work
> for the FPRs.  For o32, I have things arranged so that there are a
> total of 16 cooked FPRs and 32 raw FPRs.  Therefore, argument register
> counts will be different between cooked vs raw.  IMO, it really does
> make sense to put these values into the cooked/raw structure.  I'm
> having difficulty understanding why you're objecting to this layout.
> 
> Kevin
>