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From: Dmitry Selyutin <ghostmansd@gmail.com>
To: Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com>
Cc: lkcl <luke.leighton@gmail.com>,
	binutils@sourceware.org,
	 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl@lkcl.net>
Subject: Re: Plugin-based opcode table
Date: Mon, 23 May 2022 16:06:17 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMqzjeuUagZ3e0_uPWzopJBveUX9E6gDwu9KAOxbX_nrpibBhQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YouFGavJxwKgUw6H@squeak.grove.modra.org>

On Mon, May 23, 2022 at 3:59 PM Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com> wrote:
> I don't see any need for the artificial boundaries you might get with
> a plugin, whatever that might look like.  ppc-opc.c already supports
> multiple incompatible powerpc cpu implementations, including ones that
> depart significantly from current powerpc ISA documentation.

Alan, please, correct me if I'm wrong: does it mean that we can just
stick to marking new instructions and facilities with a custom per-CPU
flag? For now I introduced the -mlibresoc CPU which enabled the
PPC_OPCODE_SVP64 flag, and marked some new instructions appropriately
with this flag. Would that be OK if we follow this approach?

  reply	other threads:[~2022-05-23 13:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-05-17 12:37 Dmitry Selyutin
2022-05-17 14:01 ` lkcl
2022-05-23 12:59   ` Alan Modra
2022-05-23 13:06     ` Dmitry Selyutin [this message]
2022-05-24  5:41       ` Alan Modra
2022-05-24 22:11         ` Dmitry Selyutin
2022-05-29  2:30       ` Peter Bergner
2022-05-29  9:13         ` Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
2022-05-30 23:55           ` Paul Mackerras
2022-05-31  4:06             ` lkcl

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