From: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@redhat.com>
To: Joern Rennecke <Joern.Rennecke@arc.com>
Cc: cgen@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: CGEN_DIS_HASH: how to get endianness and/or instruction size?
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 01:31:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070126013107.GH30933@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20A30789B9F48C4E9D71A188EFE8042C2BC65C@elexch01.arc.com>
Hi -
joern wrote:
> [...]
> The top 5 bits of the first 16 bit word are what is known as major
> opcode field. [...]
> I reckon that, given a suitably endian-correted input,
> I could make an adequate hash by using a switch based on
> the 5 bit major opcode to decide which bits from the first 16
> bit word to use.
Heck, just use those five bits.
> I had already written the hash function, only to discover that the
> endian check depended on an argument that was not passed to my
> macro/function.
You should use the *value* rather than *buf* input.
> Its easy to change his code into incorrect and/or useless (return 0)
> code that will compile [...]
It is neither incorrect nor useless. It just means that the hash
table will be degenerate, and a linear search will be required for
each disassembled instruction. It won't hurt anyone and will only
slightly worsen global warming.
> Unless otherwise expressly stated, this message does not create or vary =
> any contractual relationship between you and ARC International. [...]
That's a relief!
- FChE
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2007-01-26 1:11 Joern Rennecke
2007-01-26 1:31 ` Frank Ch. Eigler [this message]
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2007-01-26 11:17 Joern Rennecke
2007-01-25 14:20 Joern Rennecke
2007-01-25 15:00 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2007-01-25 20:30 ` Joern Rennecke
2007-01-25 22:15 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
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