[Dwarf-Discuss] Register kinds

[Michael Eager]

Relph, Richard wrote:
> When establishing a mapping from DWARF on to a new machine architecture, 
> one has to establish a mechanism for referring to registers.
> 
> If the architecture supports more than one kind of register, what?s the 
> recommended approach for ?naming? registers of a kind other than the 
> most common?

Take a look at the PowerPC (RS6000) for an example of an
architecture with a variety of register types.  General and
FP regs get low numbers, all others have more-or-less
arbitrary register numbers.


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