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@ 2001-02-02 11:53 Frank Ch. Eigler
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From: Frank Ch. Eigler @ 2001-02-02 11:53 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Hi -

jjohnstn wrote, a while ago:

: Does CGEN have anything equivalent to the old sim/common way of specifying
: desired alignment (strict | nonstrict | forced).  [...]

No.  Memory address alignment has been traditionally been modelled
outside cgen (in sim & sid).


: I would like to get a memory trap when unaligned memory access occurs, but I
: would still like the memory access to go through after being fixed up.

(Isn't it self-contradictory to want *both*?  A trap by its
nature interrupts the normal flow.)

I think the simplest way to do your work would be to do
as sid's arm7f.h header does: provide a replacement
GETMEM/SETMEM* family of functions that imposes the
alignment constraints and perhaps flags violations.
If the cgen semantics for your port call only a subset
of GETMEM/SETMEM, you only need to override those.

Next time this issue comes up, we can adopt some fancy
C++-sy mixing-in scheme to reuse this code somewhat.

- FChE
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