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From: Fabrizio Fazzino <fabrizio@fazzino.it>
To: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Subject: Re: Assembly macro with parameters
Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2005 18:47:58 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4256B5BE.8070708@fazzino.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050407182549.GA24235@linux-mips.org>

Ralf Baechle wrote:
> Fabrizio Fazzino wrote:
> 
>>It works, but I need a way to set the values of the parameters
>>at runtime; so I've tried the following macro:
>>
>>	#define fzmin(rd, rs, rt) asm("lwc1 $rt, rd<<11($rs)");
> 
> Which will leave the assembler entirely unimpressed ;-)

I thought that the compiler was able to substitute also the
values inside strings... Is there any way to force it to do so?

> Unless you only have a few instructions and are going for a quick hack
> I really suggest to add proper support for these instructions to binutils.
> Having working support in as, gdb, objdump will make your life so much
> easier.

The processor I'm designing probably will not be implemented in
any way (we just have to simulate the VHDL hardware description),
so we just need a quick-and-dirty way to make the opcode
conversion.

	Fabrizio


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  reply	other threads:[~2005-04-08 16:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-04-07 17:53 Assembly macro with parameters Fabrizio Fazzino
2005-04-07 18:25 ` Ralf Baechle
2005-04-08 16:47   ` Fabrizio Fazzino [this message]
2005-04-08 16:57     ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-06-30 17:20       ` Fabrizio Fazzino
2005-06-30 17:32         ` David Daney
2005-07-01  8:38         ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2005-07-03 10:31           ` Fabrizio Fazzino
2005-07-04  7:40             ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2005-07-04 12:12             ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2005-07-09  7:22               ` Fabrizio Fazzino

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