From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 1041 invoked by alias); 22 Apr 2008 17:18:39 -0000 Received: (qmail 1031 invoked by uid 22791); 22 Apr 2008 17:18:38 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from fk-out-0910.google.com (HELO fk-out-0910.google.com) (209.85.128.190) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Tue, 22 Apr 2008 17:18:17 +0000 Received: by fk-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id 26so3202549fkx.10 for ; Tue, 22 Apr 2008 10:18:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.82.127.14 with SMTP id z14mr13773buc.33.1208884691874; Tue, 22 Apr 2008 10:18:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.82.162.12 with HTTP; Tue, 22 Apr 2008 10:18:11 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <8f2776cb0804221018m29a5c764o536eceb901a8d894@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2008 18:37:00 -0000 From: "Jim Blandy" To: "Kai Henningsen" Subject: Re: Some CGEN problems Cc: "Frank Ch. Eigler" , cgen@sources.redhat.com In-Reply-To: <7af24c80804211206x6e0f505fo1748b3af85a6d397@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <7af24c80804191023q318f850do9db5458352163d19@mail.gmail.com> <7af24c80804211206x6e0f505fo1748b3af85a6d397@mail.gmail.com> X-Google-Sender-Auth: cc8ef8ec51ac471d X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cgen-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cgen-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2008-q2/txt/msg00010.txt.bz2 CGEN was designed for risc-like architectures, with few instruction sizes. CISC architectures are difficult to incorporate.