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Re: defining 2-operand version of 3-operand insns?
Hi -
On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 11:13:49AM -0800, Doug Evans wrote:
: [...]
: [in another message]
: > Doug, does that sound reasonable to you, or are you philosophically
: > opposed to the entire 2/3 operand insn hack?
:
: I'm not at all opposed to this. I support it!
: [pedantic: as long as it's kept in the assembler side of things and
: hacks aren't added to the simulator to support it]
On the other hand, consider that if the ifield-assertion code is
changed to allow reasonable generalization and specialization
alternatives, then this can be a simulator performance improvement
gadget. It could subsume the (decode-splits*) construct that I
broke (disabled) a few months ago with the decoder revamping.
- FChE
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