[Mono-dev] How do I use scratch registers in op code implementation

[Braddock Gaskill (Contractor)]

Hi Rodrigo,

How do I take a general purpose register out of the available set for the register allocator?

I see with xmm15 on amd64 that you cleared the corresponding bit in MONO_ARCH_CALLEE_FREGS.

Can I just do the same with MONO_ARCH_CALLEE_REGS?  The allocator never touches callER saved regs?  (why not?)

Thanks,
Braddock


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From: Rodrigo Kumpera [kumpera at gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2012 8:39 AM
To: Braddock Gaskill (Contractor)
Cc: mono-devel-list at lists.ximian.com
Subject: Re: [Mono-dev] How do I use scratch registers in op code implementation

You can take a register out of the available set and the register allocator will never use it.

We do that with xmm reg 15 on amd64.

On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 11:04 AM, Braddock Gaskill (Contractor) <braddock.gaskill at apx-labs.com<mailto:braddock.gaskill at apx-labs.com>> wrote:
Hi folks,
We're working on the mono port to the Tilera TILE-Gx cpu.

When implementing IR op codes in mono_arch_output_basic_block() we sometimes need to use a scratch register.  For example, TILE-Gx has no single membase + offset load instruction - we must do the address addition as a separate step.

How do we inform the runtime that we have/will clobber a register?  I know that if we clobber a source register we can set the clob field in the machine description file, but what if we use another register?  Is it possible to reserve a register for this purpose?

Thanks,
Braddock Gaskill


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