[PATCH v2] ARM: asm: rename logical shift macros push pull into lspush lspull
Nicolas Pitre
nicolas.pitre at linaro.org
Tue Feb 11 12:09:35 EST 2014
On Tue, 11 Feb 2014, Dave Martin wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 04:30:01PM -0500, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> > On Mon, 10 Feb 2014, Victor Kamensky wrote:
> >
> > > Renames logical shift macros, 'push' and 'pull', defined in
> > > arch/arm/include/asm/assembler.h, into 'lspush' and 'lspull'.
> >
> > I don't have any fundamental objection to the idea, except maybe for the
> > actual names. I just can't come up with anything better though.
>
> For consistency with the get_byte_ stuff, how about:
>
> push -> towards_byte_0
> pull -> from_byte_0
>
> That may make the purpose a little clearer, too.
I don't know if
mov r0, r1, from_byte_0 #8
is that much clearer though.
> (Assuming I've got them the right way around...)
As you later noticed you got it wrong. :-)
Most likely because "full from" and "push towards" are common english
constructs.
Nicolas
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