Re: git: 1b0d96f3c43a - main - xregs_sig: Finish renaming simd to xregs before adding avx

From: Dmitry Chagin <dchagin_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Sat, 03 Jun 2023 18:50:24 UTC 
On Sat, Jun 03, 2023 at 07:05:48PM +0100, Jessica Clarke wrote:
> On 3 Jun 2023, at 18:13, Dmitry Chagin <dchagin@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> > 
> > The branch main has been updated by dchagin:
> > 
> > URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=1b0d96f3c43a5f997dca120a83a4b06995df345b
> > 
> > commit 1b0d96f3c43a5f997dca120a83a4b06995df345b
> > Author:     Dmitry Chagin <dchagin@FreeBSD.org>
> > AuthorDate: 2023-06-03 17:11:44 +0000
> > Commit:     Dmitry Chagin <dchagin@FreeBSD.org>
> > CommitDate: 2023-06-03 17:11:44 +0000
> > 
> >    xregs_sig: Finish renaming simd to xregs before adding avx
> 
> Isn’t this the wrong direction? “xregs” sounds specific to x86’s xmm
> registers; arm64’s q NEON registers are definitely not “xregs”, those
> are the standard GPRs.
> 
NEON registers is not GPRs, here xregs is all non GPRs, ie, sse, avx,
neon, etc.

> Jess
> 
> >    Reviewed by:            kib, jhb
> >    Differential Revision:  https://reviews.freebsd.org/D40382
>