make CGEN a less moving target?
Doug Evans
dje@transmeta.com
Wed Dec 11 13:50:00 GMT 2002
Frank Ch. Eigler writes:
> Hi -
>
> > > The most important value is the base-insn-size. This should be
> > > large enough to include all opcode-like bits in the longest
> > > instruction, so most likely 16 or even 32 for this chip. [...]
> >
> > If the definition of base-insn-size has been changed to this that's a bummer.
> > When did this go in?
>
> I believe this is a practical description of what actually tends
> to work with the opcodes/sim/sid runtimes, and does not relate to
> any recent patches.
So how about rephrase it as:
This is what the h/w first fetches to decode an insn.
For non-liw architectures this is the size of the smallest instruction.
More information about the Cgen
mailing list