Re: Generating assembly code without macro-instructions

[Nikolaos Kavvadias <nkavv at physics dot auth dot gr>]

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> Dave> On 27 February 2006 14:48, Nikolaos Kavvadias wrote: Dave>
> Well, yes, it /could/ be done. It would be pretty trivial Dave>
> really; you'd just need to go through the insn patterns in the
> Dave> .md file, find the ones that have output templates that
> mention Dave> any of the macros, and replace them with templates
> that Dave> generate the expanded version directly. You might also
> need to Dave> check the md .c and .h files as well, because they
> often Dave> contain assembler fragments, but they would be just as
> easy to Dave> convert.

Thanks DaveK and paul for your to-the-point responses. The reason
behind my question is that I want to use an closed-source
infrastructure for software toolchain generation which does not allow
macros that expand to more than one machine instructions (that's the
reason for the "li"). [The "li" example was taken from another
(open-source) infrastructure that I use for such stuff
(http://www.archc.org).]

I understand that binutils are not responsible for generating these
macros, they only have to interpret them; the compiler (e.g.
mips-elf-gcc) is. But your response is insightful. However, binutils
could produce a "real" assembly listing without the macro-instructions
(is that one taken by "-l"?).

I'll cross-post to gcc too since this is gcc-specific. I'm not sure if
the latest gcc (4.0.2?) avoids macros. I'll have a look at gcc ml too.

kind regards
Nikolaos Kavvadias

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