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Re: Proposal for handling large numbers of registers
J.T. Conklin writes:
> I'm not sure that a compilers notion of register classes make sense
> for debugging and vice versa. For debugging, broad categories like
> "integer registers", "floating point registers", "system registers"
> seem to be most appropriate; while compilers think of classes like
> "registers that can be used for indexing", "special register used
> for integer divide instructions", etc.
For most targets I have looked at, these other classes you mention are
usually sub-classes of the "integer registers", "fp registers", etc.
However, I can see from most user's perspectives that they will not be
interested in these special sub-classes.
Michael.