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2011 Oct 07
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[LLVMdev] AVX Naming
When Bruno designed the AVX spec, it looks like he created names like:
VADDPSrm
VADDPSYrm
to distinguish 128-bit and 256-bit operation. It's sort of become a
personal hobby of mine to curse the binutils maintainers for
"vcvtpd2psy" because it's so easy to miss the trailing suffix on a quick
scan.
I find that same trouble reading dumps with the current AVX names.
Before regalloc it is harder to determine the vector length of an
instruction at a glance.
To overcome that, I started using a naming convention of:
VxAD...