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From: Doug Evans <dje@sebabeach.org>
To: Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov <dbaryshkov@gmail.com>
Cc: cgen@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: Instruction w/ prefix
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 23:10:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AD7ABC4.3080105@sebabeach.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bc64b4640910071002m58b6b3c0o4dff1a9b40dd2eca@mail.gmail.com>

Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm using cgen to create binutils port for the CISC architecture
> (M68HC(S)08 if somebody cares). I've stumbled upon one problem: the is
> an instruction prefix which can change meaning
> of the next instruction (basically it then uses SP register instead of IX one).
>
> What is the most clean way to do this w/ cgen? I can of course
> duplicate instruction fields, counting another byte in the beginning,
> instructions, etc.. This will permit me to catch illegal combinations.
> OTOH it doesn' look like completely clean idea.
>
> What would you suggest?
>
>   

Hi.  Sorry for the slow reply.

I think the right solution (which I wouldn't wait for) is to extend cgen 
to handle instruction prefixes.

In the meantime, I would treat the prefix as its own instruction.

  reply	other threads:[~2009-10-15 23:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-07 17:02 Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov
2009-10-15 23:10 ` Doug Evans [this message]
2009-10-19 13:29   ` Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov
2009-10-19 17:27     ` Doug Evans

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