* branch-delay slot semantics questions
@ 2001-05-11 5:13 lehotsky
2001-05-11 6:17 ` Johan Rydberg
2001-05-13 15:41 ` Ben Elliston
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From: lehotsky @ 2001-05-11 5:13 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cgen
I found cgen pretty easy to get up and running for the most part.
It's a definitely a handy (and powerful) tool.
But I don't seem to be able to get the instruction in the "delay" slot
to execute. My branch instructions are all of the form
(dni "jmp"
...
(delay 1
(set pc (....)))
...
)
But my machine seems to suppress the execution of the instruction
in the delay slot, although I don't have any annul code that I'm
aware of... (when I run the simulator with -ton, the instructions
in the delay slots are never traced.
Anything I should be looking for? Is there something special my
mloop.in code needs to do?
Is there also any support for dealing with the semantics that
"a branch in the delay-slot is always annulled". I think I can
implement this by having two bits in the ISA's (setup-semantics (..))
code.
(define-isa
...
(setup-semantics (sequence
()
(set h-annul-jmp-p h-jump-insn-p)
(set h-jump-insn-p (attr BI insn DELAY-SLOT))))
)
; Branch instructions in the shadow of a branch are annulled. Remember
; if last executed instruction was a branch
(dsh h-annul-jmp-p "remember if last instruction was jump" ()
(register BI))
(dsh h-jump-insn-p "current instruction is a jmp/ret" () (register BI))
And then in every branch instruction, if the h-annul-jmp-p is set,
then we just evaluate the jump as (nop).
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