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

[Philippe Mathieu-Daudé]

On 8/20/19 6:21 PM, BALATON Zoltan wrote:
>On 8/20/19 5:37 PM, Richard Henderson wrote:
>> What if we use the AArch64 mnemonics: zxt (zero-extend) and sxt
>> (sign-extend)?
>> This would give us
>>
>>    tcg_gen_zxt8_i32
>>    tcg_gen_sxt8_i32
>>    (etc)
>>    tcg_gen_zxt_i32_i64
>>    tcg_gen_sxt_i32_i64
> 
> Again this might look familiar to those knowing AArch64 but not to
> someone who does not know that. Maybe zext sext is a bit more decypherable.

Both namings seems acceptable.

Not sure if the lexicographic distance is reduced, neither if reducing
it would make a difference :)