MIPS o32 ABI spec, $fp1 valid?

[Andrew Cagney]

Now we're getting somewhere :-)  Next question.

Does the o32 ABI specify how to spill a loating point register (a spill 
is different to a double store of a parameter as a spilt register is 
recovered by the unwind code.  mdebug might, for instance, specify 
something.

Andrew


>> Co-processor 1 adds 32 32-bit floating-point general registers and a
>> 32-bit control/status register. Each even/odd pair of the 32
>> floating-point general registers can be used as either a 32-bit
>> single-precision floating-point register or as a 64-bit
>> double-precision floating-point register. For single-precision values,
>> the even-numbered floating-point register holds the value. For
>> double-precision values, the even-numbered floating-point register
>> holds the least significant 32 bits of the value and the odd-numbered
>> floating-point register holds the most significant 32 bits of the
>> value. This is always true, regardless of the byte ordering conventions
>> in use ( big endian or little endian).
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> FYI, the above agrees with my reading of Kane (see
> http://sources.redhat.com/ml/gdb-patches/2003-06/msg00555.html ).
> 
> The ISBN is 0135847494.  it can be found used in lots of places for
> approx $10.  I paid more for mine 10+ years ago.  8-)
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>> Which is actually pretty ambiguous,
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> not really at all: "Each even/odd pair... as either _a_ 32-bit ..."
> etc.
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> Kane makes clear:
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>         In the following pages, the notation <i>FGR</i> refers to the
>         FPA's general register 0 through 31, and <i>FPR</i> refers ot
>         the FPA's floating-point registers (FPR 0 through 30) which
>         are formed by concatenation of FGR's[sic] (as described in
>         <b>Chapter 6</b>).
> 
> Chapter 6 really makes quite clear that there are 16 FGRs.
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> cgd
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