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Re: Does binutils support 48-bit instructions and half-word based little-endian?


On Wednesday 08 August 2007, bjgnu@sunnorth.com.cn wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm now concentrate on a problem about the 48-bit instruction on
> half-word based little-endian.
>
> A 32-bit chip which supports both big-endian and little-endian,
> and has both 16-bit, 32-bit, and 48-bit instructions.

For most cases on most machines this isn't an issue because you need to read 
the instruction a word at a time to figure out how big it is. Arm (Thumb-2) 
and m68k are examples of machines that have variable-length instructions 
composed of 16-bit chunks.

Paul


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