[PATCH] A few ppc assembler fixes

Jan Beulich JBeulich@suse.com
Thu Apr 23 13:02:00 GMT 2015


>>> On 23.04.15 at 14:12, <bergner@vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2015-04-23 at 07:41 +0100, Jan Beulich wrote:
>> Hmm, should assembling of instructions really be tied to specific
>> implementations rather than to ISA version? Or, shouldn't there
>> be an option to allow ISA-compliant code to assemble even if
>> there is no implementation of these insns (in which case I'd
>> assume the POWER<n> to represent such, whereas things like
>> E500MC might indeed represent specific implementations)?
> 
> How would that solve this issue, since both operand orderings
> are ISA complaint?  If it were as easy as is the insn listed
> in the ISA, then accept it, I'd be for it, but with server
> vs embedded and lots of "optional" categories, I'm not sure
> the code would be any cleaner.  ...and it would take a complete
> rewrite of this code to move to an ISA versus cpu enablement
> format.

Oh, this wasn't about the operand ordering part, but the part
removing or altering the POWER<n> attribute on some insns.

Jan



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