Re: git: 1b0d96f3c43a - main - xregs_sig: Finish renaming simd to xregs before adding avx

From: Dmitry Chagin <dchagin_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2023 08:35:40 UTC
On Wed, Jun 07, 2023 at 01:52:10AM +0000, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 03, 2023 at 10:29:12PM +0300, Dmitry Chagin wrote:
> > On Sat, Jun 03, 2023 at 07:57:03PM +0100, Jessica Clarke wrote:
> > > ...
> > > But the AArch64 registers are called x0 through x30. They are x
> > > registers. So calling the SIMD registers X registers is both incorrect
> > > and highly confusing. It is not general, it is specific to x86's notion
> > > of SIMD.
> > 
> > Naming is hard (c) especially for non-native :),
> > I just need an avx registers test to fix golang issues in the Linuxulator.
> > Feel free to join D40410, D40384, propose you naming variant, may be
> > x->ext or ngprs
> 
> What was wrong with SIMD (simd)?

Strictly speaking test is about the fact that signal context properly
saves/restores machine context including gprs, simd registers, on x86
xsave area including many things, whch can be added later



> 
> ./danfe