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re: [patch] AltiVec support for PSIM.
- From: matthew green <mrg at cygnus dot com>
- To: Andrew Cagney <ac131313 at cygnus dot com>
- Cc: gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2002 12:59:16 +1100
- Subject: re: [patch] AltiVec support for PSIM.
- Organisation: Red Hat, Asia-Pacific.
That just leaves the problem of how to generate an altivec enabled
simulator from two files. I can think of two alternatives: steal code
from the more up-to-date sim/igen generator as that supports a
``:include:'' directive; pull a nasty hack such as `cat ppc-instructions
altivec.igen > tmp.igen` comes to mind (it does defeat igen's ability to
refer back to source code lines though).
yup. i had a quick look at supporting :include: but that has a few
issues with $(builddir) != $(srcdir) that don't look trivial to solve
and the sim/igen code has changed somewhat...
Given that I suspect you're going to need to be able to generate
multiple simulators - with / without Altivec, stealing code from
sim/igen might be the better medium to long term option. Since, as
illustrated by MIPS, sim/igen supports this.
for the short term, i'm going to go with the "cat" hack, but i will
work on making :include: work in the longer term. as you note, the
cat solution loses the line number info.
a third solution would be to permit multiple "-i" switches to be
passed to igen, but that also looks non-trivial. at least the call
to insn_table_expand_insns() would need to be modified somehow, but
i could be wrong.
thanks,
.mrg.