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From: Doug Evans <dje@sebabeach.org>
To: Joern Rennecke <joern.rennecke@embecosm.com>
Cc: cgen@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: ALIAS instructions are messed up?
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 2009 18:22:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4ACA3977.8090708@sebabeach.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091003163955.51so5zjyysow04k8-nzlynne@webmail.spamcop.net>

Joern Rennecke wrote:
>> Whether to disallow alias insns entirely is a separate question. Dunno.
>> [We could still keep it for macro-insns.
>> And I realize there are a few ports that currently use it, or at 
>> least specify > it.]
>
> Currently, macro-instructions can't be used in all instances where
> it should be natural to use them.
> When you want to set a multi-ifield to a constant, you end up with
> the entire costant being added in in the bit position of each of
> constituent simple bitfields.

Let's fix this.  Do you have an example readily available?

>
> By adding an ALIAS instruction by hand, you can at least work around
> the problem by setting only simple bitfields to constants.

Good point.

  reply	other threads:[~2009-10-05 18:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-03 20:33 Joern Rennecke
2009-10-05 18:22 ` Doug Evans [this message]
2009-10-05 21:42   ` Joern Rennecke
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-06-18 17:27 Doug Evans

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