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From: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
To: "Lluís Vilanova" <vilanova@ac.upc.edu>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: "Edgar E . Iglesias" <edgar.iglesias@gmail.com>,
	peter.maydell@linaro.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v1 1/2] tcg: Add support for constant value promises
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2016 10:20:04 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <56993854.1030802@twiddle.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <145287210479.25408.17499099590726683703.stgit@localhost>

On 01/15/2016 07:35 AM, Lluís Vilanova wrote:
> +TCGv_i64 tcg_promise_i64(TCGv_promise_i64 *promise)
> +{
> +    int pi = tcg_ctx.gen_next_parm_idx;
> +    *promise = (TCGv_promise_i64)&tcg_ctx.gen_opparam_buf[pi];
> +    return tcg_const_i64(0xdeadcafe);
> +}

This doesn't work for a 32-bit host.  The constant may be split across two
different parameter indices, and you don't know exactly where the second will be.

Because of that, I think this is over-engineered, and really prefer the simpler
interface that Edgar posted last week.



r~

  reply	other threads:[~2016-01-15 18:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-01-15 15:34 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v1 0/2] tcg: Add support for constant value promises Lluís Vilanova
2016-01-15 15:35 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v1 1/2] " Lluís Vilanova
2016-01-15 18:20   ` Richard Henderson [this message]
2016-01-15 20:12     ` Lluís Vilanova
2016-01-15 20:26       ` Richard Henderson
2016-01-16 20:57         ` Lluís Vilanova
2016-01-19 17:00           ` Edgar E. Iglesias
2016-01-19 21:17             ` Lluís Vilanova
2016-01-15 15:35 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v1 2/2] gen-icount: Use " Lluís Vilanova

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