Re: [Qemu-devel] [EXTERNAL]Re: Proposal for amending TCG interface naming scheme

[Richard Henderson]

On 8/20/19 9:15 AM, Aleksandar Markovic wrote:
>     > tcg_gen_gather_i32
>     > tcg_gen_gather_i64
>     > tcg_gen_gather_tl
> 
>     I'm not sure how "gather" applies.
> 
> 
> gather = come together; assemble or accumulate

Sure, but...

>     To me this sounds like a vector
>     scatter/gather operation, where N different addresses are used to load 
> the N
>     elements of the vector.

... it also has a completely different well-known meaning.


>     Hmm, "pick" doesn't mean anything to me. 
> 
> 
> and "extl" does?

Sure: "EXTract Low".  Paired with "EXTract High" it certainly makes sense.


> I was hoping we would remove "sextract" (well, it is funny a little bit
> definitely, but if there are zillion occurrences, and used everyday, it just
> stops being funny, and is somewhat distracting...), however it looks we will
> get "sextend", and "sextend2", and "sex_h" and "sex_l"...

Why mention all of these brand new straw-man variants?  Anyway, we are not
children, giggling at a sequence of letters taken out of context.


r~