Re: new do-count rtl

[Doug Evans <dje at sebabeach dot org>]

Doug Evans wrote:
> Doug Evans wrote:
> > Hi.
> >
> > What do folks think of adding a new rtl for iterating a specified 
> > number of times.
> >
> > Something like
> >
> > (do-count nr-times iter-var expr1 [expr2 ...])
> >
> > For now the result would always be void, and iter-var would always 
> > have mode INT.
> > The set of expressions is performed nr-times times and iter-var has 
> > values 0 ... nr-times - 1.
> >
> > ?
>
> Checked in.
>
> 2009-08-27  Doug Evans  <dje@sebabeach.org>
>
>        Add do-count rtl function.
>        * rtl-c.scm (s-do-count): New function.
>        (do-count): New rtl handler.
>        * rtl-traverse.scm (-rtx-traverse-iteration): New function.
>        (-rtx-make-traverser-table): Add ITERATION.
>        * rtl.scm (rtx-env-make-iteration-locals): New function.
>        * rtx-funcs.scm (do-count): New rtl function.
>        * cpu/play.cpu: Add do-count-test insn.
>        * doc/rtl.texi: Add docs on do-count.

fyi,
I updated the patch to support an rtl expression for the number of 
iterations, and swapped the iteration-var and number-of-iterations 
parameters (felt more consistent with sequence/parallel).