authorgravatar for noam@pixelhero.devNoam Preil <noam@pixelhero.dev> 2020-05-22 15:24:24-04:00
committergravatar for andrew@ziglang.orgAndrew Kelley <andrew@ziglang.org> 2020-05-22 15:32:33-04:00
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[Stage2/Codegen] Document x64 register enum layout

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src-self-hosted/codegen/x86_64.zig+16
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11// zig fmt: off
2
3/// Definitions of all of the x64 registers. The order is very, very important.
4/// The registers are defined such that IDs go in descending order of 64-bit,
5/// 32-bit, 16-bit, and then 8-bit, and each set contains exactly sixteen
6/// registers. This results in some very, very useful properties:
7///
8/// Any 64-bit register can be turned into its 32-bit form by adding 16, and
9/// vice verse. This also works between 32-bit and 16-bit. With 8-bit, it works
10/// for all except for sp, bp, si, and di, which don't *have* an eight-bit
11/// form.
12///
13/// If (register & 8) is set, the register is extended.
14///
15/// The ID can be easily determined by figuring out what range the register is
16/// in, and then subtracting the base.
17///
218pub const Register = enum(u8) {
319 // 0 through 15, 64-bit registers. 8-15 are extended.
420 // id is just the int value.