[commit: ghc] master: Comments only: more alternate names for ARM registers [skip ci] (edb30fd)

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commit edb30fd4d21fb7d41fe718fc52a800c93607953f
Author: Reid Barton <rwbarton at gmail.com>
Date:   Mon Jan 25 09:13:04 2016 -0500

    Comments only: more alternate names for ARM registers [skip ci]
    
    Summary:
    These are the names used by arm-linux-androideabi-objdump, so
    it's helpful to have them here next to the Stg register mapping.
    
    Reviewers: austin, erikd, bgamari
    
    Reviewed By: erikd, bgamari
    
    Subscribers: thomie
    
    Differential Revision: https://phabricator.haskell.org/D1840


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edb30fd4d21fb7d41fe718fc52a800c93607953f
 includes/stg/MachRegs.h | 7 ++++---
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/includes/stg/MachRegs.h b/includes/stg/MachRegs.h
index b1a0ef0..ce4ebf4 100644
--- a/includes/stg/MachRegs.h
+++ b/includes/stg/MachRegs.h
@@ -485,14 +485,15 @@ the stack. See Note [Overlapping global registers] for implications.
    Here we consider ARM mode (i.e. 32bit isns)
    and also CPU with full VFPv3 implementation
 
-   ARM registers (see Chapter 5.1 in ARM IHI 0042D)
+   ARM registers (see Chapter 5.1 in ARM IHI 0042D and
+   Section 9.2.2 in ARM Software Development Toolkit Reference Guide)
 
    r15  PC         The Program Counter.
    r14  LR         The Link Register.
    r13  SP         The Stack Pointer.
    r12  IP         The Intra-Procedure-call scratch register.
-   r11  v8         Variable-register 8.
-   r10  v7         Variable-register 7.
+   r11  v8/fp      Variable-register 8.
+   r10  v7/sl      Variable-register 7.
    r9   v6/SB/TR   Platform register. The meaning of this register is
                    defined by the platform standard.
    r8   v5         Variable-register 5.