[PATCH] PowerPC VLE changes

Andrew Jenner andrew@codesourcery.com
Mon Mar 27 14:32:00 GMT 2017


Hi Alexander,

On 24/03/2017 15:32, Александр Федотов wrote:
> I have question in continuation of
> https://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2016-07/msg00342.html
>
> Why do you need to have "e_cmpwi" etc in vle_opcodes table ? It seems
> they are just alias names because of the same opcodes and objdump
> never show them.
> Why don't to use powerpc_macros instead ?
>
> And it seems that following instructions must be marked as E200Z4 also
> respectively to MPC5748G Reference Manual:
>
> lbdx
> lhdx
> lwdx
> stbdx
> sthdx
> stwdx

You may very well be right, on both counts. If you'd like to propose a 
patch, I'll take a look and run tests on it. Otherwise, I'll look into 
making these changes next time I'm doing some VLE work.

Thanks,

Andrew



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