[PATCH v2 6/6] target-arm: cpu.h document why env->spsr exists

Peter Maydell peter.maydell at linaro.org
Wed Mar 4 06:46:03 PST 2015


On 4 March 2015 at 23:35, Alex Bennée <alex.bennee at linaro.org> wrote:
> I was getting very confused about the duplication of state. Perhaps we
> should just get rid of env->spsr and use helpers that understand the
> banking?

Doesn't seem worth changing the current working code to something
else that's strictly less efficient... spsr is by no means the
only banked-by-mode register, and it works just like all the others.

-- PMM



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