[FFmpeg-devel] Rename SH4 architecture to SH

[Mike Melanson]

M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
> Diego Biurrun wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 12:30:15PM +0000, Robert Swain wrote:
>>> 2009/1/15 Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de>:
>>>> Hi, I just noticed that the SuperH architecture is abbreviated as SH,
>>>> but we use SH4 in #defines and directory names.  I propose changing
>>>> that.  Anybody against?
>>> Would it lose any clarity because of 'sh' being an abbreviation for 'shell'?
>> In what context do you think it could be confused?
>>
>> I think I have to note that SH-4 (or SH4) is just a special type of SH
>> processor, similar to ARM and ARMV4L/ARMV5 etc., there exist other
>> variants like SH-2, SH-3, SH-5, ...
> 
> All our code for that family is for SH4, and as someone else said, none
> of the others see much use.  The architecture is generally referred to
> as sh4, so renaming it could be confusing.  I'd leave it as is for now.

Not only is the code for SH4 specifically, I think some of the special 
optimizations might be for the Sega Dreamcast's custom variant of the 
CPU. But I would have to research it again to be sure.

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     -Mike Melanson