* Excluding parts of the instruction set during compilation
@ 2014-02-13 10:21 Fabian Oboril
2014-02-13 11:51 ` Kyrill Tkachov
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From: Fabian Oboril @ 2014-02-13 10:21 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: gcc-help
Hello everybody,
I am currently working on a project for which I need to compile C-code
using only a small subset of the available instruction set. So for
example, instead of using add, addi, addiu and addu, I would like that
the compiler is using just one of them. Is there a way, that this can be
handled with gcc, for example by giving a list of not-to-use
instructions at compile time?
Can anyone help?
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* Re: Excluding parts of the instruction set during compilation
2014-02-13 10:21 Excluding parts of the instruction set during compilation Fabian Oboril
@ 2014-02-13 11:51 ` Kyrill Tkachov
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From: Kyrill Tkachov @ 2014-02-13 11:51 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Fabian Oboril; +Cc: gcc-help
On 13/02/14 10:21, Fabian Oboril wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
> I am currently working on a project for which I need to compile C-code
> using only a small subset of the available instruction set. So for
> example, instead of using add, addi, addiu and addu, I would like that
> the compiler is using just one of them. Is there a way, that this can be
> handled with gcc, for example by giving a list of not-to-use
> instructions at compile time?
>
> Can anyone help?
Hi Fabian,
It's not really possible to give gcc a list of instructions not to use. What if
some operations in your source code can only be performed by those instructions
that you excluded? Getting the compiler to synthesise any operation using any
arbitrary subset of instructions is not realistic.
Some targets, for example arm, can generate code for multiple revisions of the
architecture and newer revisions might allow instructions that are not present
in previous ones. In that case gcc will know not to generate those instructions
if asked to compile for the old instruction by having -march set appropriately,
but the list of instructions available for use is defined by the architecture,
not the user.
HTH,
Kyrill
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