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Re: CGEN_WIDE_INT_INSN_P?
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 6:37 PM, Frank Ch. Eigler <fche@redhat.com> wrote:
> Hi -
>
> On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 05:50:44PM -0700, Doug Evans wrote:
>> On the opcodes-like size of things,
>> I remember ages ago talk of not having a choice between representing
>> instructions as an int or as a byte stream,
>> and just having a byte stream.
>>
>> I kinda like using an int for targets where it feels like the
>> obvious choice (e.g. sparc, etc.).
>> Wrappers could fold CGEN_INT_INSN_P targets into byte streams.
>> [...]
>
> The hard part seems to be not the representation typedefs, but the
> operations thereupon. ?Fetching, masking, printing, comparing,
> constitute a little API that hand-written (e.g. simulator) code
> needs to be aware of, and perhaps flexible with regards to.
No disagreement there. My only intention was to give enough to
present the flavor of the change (once that's done the rest readily
presents itself for inspection :-)).