Re: Rename xmm-tn-p to float-register-tn-p

No, it's not related to anything.

On Thu, Aug 20, 2026 at 9:59 PM arthur miller <[email protected]> wrote:
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> CI fails on Mac build. But all places are only in x86-64.
>
> Is it really related to this one or something else?
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> Från: arthur miller <[email protected]>
> Skickat: den 20 augusti 2026 19:58
> Till: Stas Boukarev <[email protected]>
> Kopia: sbcl-devel <[email protected]>
> Ämne: Re: [Sbcl-devel] Rename xmm-tn-p to float-register-tn-p
>
> Ha! I just produced new one and was about to send it 🙂 👍
>
> I also wrote a less verbose commit message in the new one,
> Without unnecessary deatils, but it is ok; I'll rebase mine branch.
>
> Thanks.
>
> ________________________________
> Från: Stas Boukarev <[email protected]>
> Skickat: den 20 augusti 2026 19:44
> Till: arthur miller <[email protected]>
> Kopia: sbcl-devel <[email protected]>
> Ämne: Re: Rename xmm-tn-p to float-register-tn-p
>
> I modified your patch to float-tn-p and applied it.
>
> On Thu, Aug 20, 2026 at 8:37 PM Stas Boukarev <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > I think float-tn-p is a better name.
> >
> > > Another question: do you prefer patches, pull requests on GH, or just to
> > > notify you when I have something? 🙂 I see you have applied
> > > the GH branch, not the patch I send yesterday.
> >
> > That was just a diff, not a proper patch.
> >
> > On Thu, Aug 20, 2026 at 8:34 PM arthur miller <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >
> > > I would like to refactor an older function for Intel simd support.
> > > Is that OK please? The reason:
> > >
> > > The name xmm-tn-p is a misnomer. The code checks whether a register is in
> > > storage base for float registers which can be xmm, ymm, zmm, float, double,
> > > complex float and complex double registers. While it is true xmm-tn-p asks if a
> > > TN is in float registers SB, it also suggests we are differentiating between
> > > ymm-tn-p, zmm-tn-p etc, which is not really the case here. It caused me a bug
> > > and some investigation while working on mask registers support.
> > >
> > > Another question: do you prefer patches, pull requests on GH, or just to
> > > notify you when I have something? 🙂 I see you have applied
> > > the GH branch, not the patch I send yesterday.


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