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Re: incorrect disassembly on vliw / little endian
"Frank Ch. Eigler" wrote:
>
> Hi -
>
> On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 10:07:17PM -0500, Patrick Macdonald wrote:
> : [...]
> : The if-then is for vliw, big endian. Should we not try to
> : make it for vliw regardless of the endian?
>
> Can you explain why the VLIW-ness matters here?
It doesn't, it was a brain toot. I was referring to varying length
instructions.
> Is it a way
> of referring to the presence of multiple ISAs for a given
> machine? (arm & thumb are not VLIW.)
No. The same ISA has instructions of varying length with the
same opcodes (ex. FOO is 16 bits, 32 bits and 48 bits).
Patrick