Re: Assembler syntax with embedded spaces

[Dave Brolley <brolley at redhat dot com>]

Will Newton wrote:

> I've just had a dig in the cgen source and noticed this comment in insn.scm:
>
> ; Return instruction mnemonic.
> ; This is computed from the syntax string.
> ; The mnemonic, as we define it, is everything up to, but not including, the
> ; first space or '$'.
> ; FIXME: Rename to syntax-mnemonic, and take a syntax string argument.
>
> and opc-itab.scm:
>
> ; Strip the mnemonic part from SYNTAX.
> ; (ie: everything up to but not including the first space or '$')
> ; If STRIP-MNEM-OPERANDS?, strip them too.
>
> I'm not sure what I want to do is possible.
>  
It certainly seems that CGEN is not well suited to the assembly syntax. 
Two solutions:

1) Implement the FIXME described above
2) (ugly hack) treat the prefix as the mnemonic and the mnemonics as 
operands.

Dave