From: Doug Evans <dje@transmeta.com>
To: Greg McGary <greg@mcgary.org>
Cc: fche@redhat.com (Frank Ch. Eigler), cgen@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: Re: PATCH: string-expansion macros
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 13:41:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <15067.22740.508672.419317@casey.transmeta.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <msy9t0pozo.fsf@mcgary.org>
Greg McGary writes:
> Doug Evans <dje@transmeta.com> writes:
>
> > I think that's the way things should work,
> > and I wonder if needing to reverse it reveals a problem that
> > is best solved differently.
>
> Intercepts are one use, whereas what I have implemented is a
> "fallback" to be used only when a real insn won't match. Both are
> valid, IMO. What needs to be done differently is to allow the
> programmer to specify whether they want to intercept or if they want
> to offer fallback. Sounds like the least disruptive way to go is to
> retain intercept semantics as the default, and allow an attribute to
> specify fallback semantics.
I don't have a problem with the attribute (well, I do, but
not a big enough of one to care).
I just wonder whether that's the best way to go.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-04-16 13:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <200103022358.QAA31874.cygnus.local.cgen@kayak.mcgary.org>
2001-04-16 12:37 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2001-04-16 12:58 ` Greg McGary
2001-04-16 13:18 ` Doug Evans
2001-04-16 13:29 ` Greg McGary
2001-04-16 13:41 ` Doug Evans [this message]
2001-03-02 15:59 Greg McGary
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