Re: PATCH: add pa2.0 system instructions

["Jerry Quinn" <jquinn@nortelnetworks.com>]

>> "jeff" == Jeffrey A Law <law@cygnus.com> writes:

 jeff>   In message < 14209.5087.709459.591226@gargle.gargle.HOWL >you write:
 >> I mostly started playing to get in the extra opcodes for long displacement
 >> float load/store but started to look at completing the pa2.0 support.  So
 >> I added the easy (!) stuff first.
 jeff> Certainly the way to go.  I started with the easy stuff too ;-) The
 jeff> load/store support is some of the ugliest stuff in the new PA2.0
 jeff> support.  I'm hoping you did a cleaner job than I so that I can toss my
 jeff> code in favor of yours instead of trying to rewrite mine.

I only have a bit of it already implemented, mostly because I wasn't sure
about the best way to proceed in terms of codes.  But I'm willing to keep
working on it :-)

One thing I think will make things easier is the float code renaming I had
originally tried to submit.  I tried to count up the cases where we would need 
new codes and I don't think there are enough single letters left to do the job 
well.  Renaming the float codes will give us a significant amount of extra
room. 

The best situation would allow us to include some of the completers in the
opcode name itself, but I don't see how that will work easily.

 jeff> My plan is to clean up and contribute the stuff I did (that you haven't
 jeff> already done) starting in mid July.  At the same time my development
 jeff> focus is shifting to PA64 support (which will in turn stress the PA2.0
 jeff> support).

 jeff> I'll also be contributing gcc changes to support the new assembler
 jeff> syntax, so there's no need to work on that, except from a testing
 jeff> standpoint.

Are you making the new syntax active in gas at all levels or just 2.0?

 jeff> jeff

Jerry

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