Re: CGEN_DIS_HASH: how to get endianness and/or instruction size?

["Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@redhat.com>]

Hi -

On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 08:30:11PM +0000, Joern Rennecke wrote:
> I've seen that, but it assumes that if the top 16 its are zero,
> the instruction can be hashed as a 16 bit instruction.  That is not
> the case for ARCompact. [...]

Where are the bits that allow the insn to be decoded as a branch?  How
the hardware know whether it's a 16- or 32-bit insn?  Those are the
kind of bits are what are normally mingled into the hash.  Maybe your
base_insn designation is too small.

> > It is important to realize though that this disassembler hashing
> > widget is strictly an optimization.  [...]
> 
> I can only verify this positively when I've completely finished the
> port so that other people can use it...

Indeed, but if you can accept a lesser standard of proof, you could
leave this part of the port till the end.


- FChE