From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Doug Evans <dje@transmeta.com>
To: fche@redhat.com (Frank Ch. Eigler)
Cc: Stan Cox <scox@redhat.com>, cgen@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: Re: patch for insn size > word size
Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2001 22:31:00 -0000
Message-id: <15053.21656.602535.619823@casey.transmeta.com>
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Frank Ch. Eigler writes:
 > :  > This proposed patch adds support for architectures where the insn size
 > :  > is larger than the word size.  [...]
 > : 
 > : I'd like to think about this one for a day or two.
 > 
 > We have a need to take this whole opcodes area of the cgen runtime a
 > leap beyond where it is now.  Support for variable and strange length
 > instruction sets all have increasing urgency.  I am tempted to finally
 > reorganize/rewrite this area to use a single consistent general
 > system.

I'd prefer to see a proposal _first_!