From: Dave Brolley <brolley@redhat.com>
To: Will Newton <will.newton@gmail.com>
Cc: Will Newton <will.newton@imgtec.com>, cgen@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: Assembler syntax with embedded spaces
Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:46:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4783B6ED.1090509@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a5b0800801080755m13457d2dx94f7506f796ae5d4@mail.gmail.com>
Will Newton wrote:
>I've just had a dig in the cgen source and noticed this comment in insn.scm:
>
>; Return instruction mnemonic.
>; This is computed from the syntax string.
>; The mnemonic, as we define it, is everything up to, but not including, the
>; first space or '$'.
>; FIXME: Rename to syntax-mnemonic, and take a syntax string argument.
>
>and opc-itab.scm:
>
>; Strip the mnemonic part from SYNTAX.
>; (ie: everything up to but not including the first space or '$')
>; If STRIP-MNEM-OPERANDS?, strip them too.
>
>I'm not sure what I want to do is possible.
>
>
It certainly seems that CGEN is not well suited to the assembly syntax.
Two solutions:
1) Implement the FIXME described above
2) (ugly hack) treat the prefix as the mnemonic and the mnemonics as
operands.
Dave
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-08 17:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-08 15:26 Will Newton
2008-01-08 15:32 ` Dave Brolley
2008-01-08 15:55 ` Will Newton
2008-01-08 17:46 ` Dave Brolley [this message]
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