On Fri, Jul 19, 2019 at 11:17:51AM +0100, Jozef Lawrynowicz wrote:
> That is something I considered in previous discussion here:
> https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2019-07/msg00372.html
>
> But it seemed like this could potentially be a useful feature for other
> targets
> that wish to enable it. It doesn't appear necessary to restrict the case of
> register names, unless a target exists that has different registers that
> differ
> only by case.
It doesn't seem like a generally useful feature to me, C as well as C++ are
case sensitive, so is gcc command line parsing, so having the register names
handled insensitive is strange and undesirable.
Perhaps the reason you want it for msp430 is that the register names were
chosen badly as upper case which surprises people?
Having register int x __asm ("eAx"); register __m512i __asm ("ZmM11"); is simply
weird, not something we should allow nor promote.
Jakub
