From: Alan Modra <amodra@bigpond.net.au>
To: Zack Weinberg <zack@codesourcery.com>
Cc: hp@bitrange.com, schwab@suse.de, binutils@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: demand_empty_rest_of_line and ignore_rest_of_line
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 02:35:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040427020222.GA2581@bubble.modra.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <873c6q6y5b.fsf@egil.codesourcery.com>
On Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 05:51:44PM -0700, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> Uh, when I said "collapse the parsing logic together" I meant "think
> of a way to get rid of the machine-dependent parsers to the maximum
> extent possible." While thinking very carefully about how to make the
> parser go blazingly fast *without* special tricks. I'm quite
> confident this is possible. Assembly syntax - with or without extra
> added whitespace - is not complicated, nor does it vary that much
> across architectures supported by GAS.
One thing that complicates do_scrub_chars in gas, for very little gain,
is trying to remove all unneeded whitespace. For example,
foo: mov %eax, $2 + 3 + 4
is turned into
foo: mov %eax,$2+3+4
The aim being to render whitespace removal unnecessary in target
dependent code. That's a good idea until you encounter constructs like:
foo: addr16 mov %eax,0
where the "opcode" part of the instruction itself has whitespace.
Without various hacks, do_scrub_chars would turn the above into
foo: addr16 mov%eax,0
Other architectures have similar assembly constructs. So I think you
underestimate the complexity in a general parser design. Just
separating an assembly line into label, opcode, operands isn't so easy!
--
Alan Modra
IBM OzLabs - Linux Technology Centre
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-04-27 2:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-03-17 16:36 Nathan Sidwell
2004-03-17 16:43 ` Hans-Peter Nilsson
2004-03-17 16:49 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2004-03-18 10:29 ` Nathan Sidwell
2004-03-18 13:15 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2004-04-23 23:15 ` Andreas Schwab
2004-04-24 17:36 ` Hans-Peter Nilsson
2004-04-24 17:57 ` Andreas Schwab
2004-04-24 18:26 ` Hans-Peter Nilsson
2004-04-24 19:22 ` Andreas Schwab
2004-04-24 21:31 ` Hans-Peter Nilsson
2004-04-24 21:33 ` Andreas Schwab
2004-04-24 23:25 ` Hans-Peter Nilsson
2004-04-24 23:37 ` Andreas Schwab
2004-04-25 0:03 ` Zack Weinberg
2004-04-25 0:22 ` Hans-Peter Nilsson
2004-04-26 0:28 ` Zack Weinberg
2004-04-26 0:58 ` Hans-Peter Nilsson
2004-04-26 2:14 ` Hans-Peter Nilsson
2004-04-25 23:35 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2004-04-26 0:51 ` Zack Weinberg
2004-04-26 2:46 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2004-04-26 3:13 ` Zack Weinberg
2004-04-26 14:16 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2004-04-26 14:22 ` Andreas Schwab
2004-04-26 14:34 ` Richard Earnshaw
2004-04-26 15:29 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2004-04-26 19:26 ` Hans-Peter Nilsson
2004-04-26 19:42 ` Kai Henningsen
2004-04-26 19:45 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2004-04-26 20:04 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2004-04-27 1:32 ` Zack Weinberg
2004-04-27 2:02 ` Hans-Peter Nilsson
2004-04-27 2:38 ` Zack Weinberg
2004-04-27 2:35 ` Alan Modra [this message]
2004-04-27 3:13 ` Zack Weinberg
2004-04-27 4:33 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2004-04-27 5:19 ` Zack Weinberg
2004-04-27 6:52 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2004-04-27 11:43 ` Richard Earnshaw
2004-04-27 2:47 ` Ian Lance Taylor
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