Re: git: 1b0d96f3c43a - main - xregs_sig: Finish renaming simd to xregs before adding avx
Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2023 08:35:40 UTC
On Wed, Jun 07, 2023 at 01:52:10AM +0000, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote: > On Sat, Jun 03, 2023 at 10:29:12PM +0300, Dmitry Chagin wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 03, 2023 at 07:57:03PM +0100, Jessica Clarke wrote: > > > ... > > > But the AArch64 registers are called x0 through x30. They are x > > > registers. So calling the SIMD registers X registers is both incorrect > > > and highly confusing. It is not general, it is specific to x86's notion > > > of SIMD. > > > > Naming is hard (c) especially for non-native :), > > I just need an avx registers test to fix golang issues in the Linuxulator. > > Feel free to join D40410, D40384, propose you naming variant, may be > > x->ext or ngprs > > What was wrong with SIMD (simd)? Strictly speaking test is about the fact that signal context properly saves/restores machine context including gprs, simd registers, on x86 xsave area including many things, whch can be added later > > ./danfe