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From: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@redhat.com>
To: Hans-Peter Nilsson <hp@bitrange.com>
Cc: cgen@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [RFA:] Fix for lsb0? in -gen-extract-word, take 2.
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 20:48:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020624234746.A1432@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.30.0206242149010.46015-100000@dair.pair.com>; from hp@bitrange.com on Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 09:50:00PM -0400

Hi -

On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 09:50:00PM -0400, Hans-Peter Nilsson wrote:
> Here's a less intrusive fix since I couldn't wrap my head around
> what adjustment there should be for the "<<" expression.  I
> can't figure out whether it actually has lsb0?-issues at all, so
> I'll not touch it.  Again, only tested on the CRIS (wip) target.
> [...]

Let me voice one note of caution regarding this area.  cgen is
not fully developed with respect to variable-length instruction
sets, and some other odd cgen-isa parametrizations.  This has
been making it necessary to use lsb0=#f for several cpu ports.
I'm worried that modification of something as low-level as
gen-extract-* can easily break these unusual ports. 
Unfortunately, only "medium-weird" ports are on the sourceware
cgen repository, so it's possible that a change will break only
a port you don't (yet) have access to.

Anyway, please keep in mind that you're treading on fragile
territory.


- FChE

  reply	other threads:[~2002-06-25  3:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-06-24 18:50 Hans-Peter Nilsson
2002-06-24 20:48 ` Frank Ch. Eigler [this message]
2002-06-24 21:06   ` Doug Evans
2002-06-25  3:20     ` Frank Ch. Eigler

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