Parallel instruction syntax

[Laurent Pinchart]

Hi,

I'm (still) strying to port the binutils for the TMS320C6000 (Texas 
Instrument).

I ran into a problem with the parallel instruction syntax for GAS.

The processor can execute up to 8 instructions in parallel. The TI 
syntax for the assembly code is

    instruction 1
|| instruction 2
|| instruction 3
|| ...
|| instruction 8

Each opcode contains a parallel flag stating if the NEXT instruction 
should be executed in parallel with the current one, or if it should be 
executed on the next clock cycle.

Unfortunately, that means that an opcode can only be fully encoded when 
the next line of assembly code is parsed.

How is GAS supposed to handle that ? I checked several processors with 
parallel processing abilities already included in GAS, but all of them 
can only execute 2 instructions in parallel, and the source code for that is

instruction 1 || instruction 2

Any help about that issue would be greatly appreciated.

Laurent Pinchart