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From: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
To: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Cc: "Keith Packard" <keithp@keithp.com>,
	"Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>,
	"QEMU Developers" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Semihost SYS_READC implementation (v4)
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2019 21:04:51 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFEAcA-BFoi00BWmXjEHGyML5FGdYF3eQnUiWUZrqFNtbP34Xw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <79acf595-5cc3-b795-24c9-e4511071c6c8@linaro.org>

On Thu, 14 Nov 2019 at 20:52, Richard Henderson
<richard.henderson@linaro.org> wrote:
> Yet another reason why I prefer any semi-hosting call to use an encoding that
> is otherwise reserved illegal.
>
> For this, you have to make up your mind: is it important to execute the
> instructions as specified by the ISA, or as specified by the semi-hosting spec?
>
> In this case, semi-hosting defines an "entry nop" that begins the sequence, and
> I think that we are well within our rights to ignore the validity of "insn1
> insn2 || other-insn".

Perhaps. I think you get the same issue with
  insn1 || insn2
vs
  insn1 || some-other-insn

though. (And the spec has wording that explicitly wants the
latter to be handled with the normal "I'm a hint instruction"
behaviour of insn1.)

-- PMM


  reply	other threads:[~2019-11-14 21:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-10-23 19:26 [PATCH] Semihost SYS_READC implementation (v3) Keith Packard
2019-10-24 17:33 ` no-reply
2019-10-24 18:54   ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-10-24 22:46     ` [PATCH] Semihost SYS_READC implementation (v4) Keith Packard
2019-10-25  9:51       ` Alex Bennée
2019-10-25 16:36         ` Keith Packard
2019-10-25 16:49           ` Peter Maydell
2019-10-25 19:15             ` Keith Packard
2019-10-25 20:53               ` Peter Maydell
2019-10-25 23:18                 ` Keith Packard
2019-11-04 20:42                   ` [PATCH] Semihost SYS_READC implementation (v6) Keith Packard
2019-12-17  8:38                     ` Alex Bennée
2019-12-17  9:08                       ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-12-17  9:51                         ` Alex Bennée
2019-12-17 10:04                           ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-12-17 12:14                             ` [RFC PATCH] semihosting: suspend recieving CPU when blocked (HACK, WIP) Alex Bennée
2019-12-17 12:22                               ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-12-17 13:42                                 ` Alex Bennée
2019-12-17 13:48                                   ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-12-17 14:18                                     ` Alex Bennée
2019-12-17 14:39                                       ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-12-17 14:39                                       ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-12-18 17:36                                         ` Alex Bennée
2019-12-18 21:23                                           ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-11-05  5:10                 ` [PATCH] Semihost SYS_READC implementation (v4) Keith Packard
2019-11-11 14:51                   ` Peter Maydell
2019-11-14 15:46                     ` Alistair Francis
2019-11-14 17:43                       ` Keith Packard
2019-11-14 17:39                     ` Keith Packard
2019-11-14 17:47                       ` Peter Maydell
2019-11-14 19:20                         ` Peter Maydell
2019-11-14 16:14               ` Peter Maydell
2019-11-14 18:05                 ` Keith Packard
2019-11-14 18:18                   ` Peter Maydell
2019-11-14 19:18                 ` Richard Henderson
2019-11-14 19:29                   ` Peter Maydell
2019-11-14 20:52                     ` Richard Henderson
2019-11-14 21:04                       ` Peter Maydell [this message]
2019-11-14 22:26                   ` Keith Packard
2019-11-15 10:54                     ` Peter Maydell
2019-11-15 23:40                       ` Keith Packard
2019-10-25 17:02           ` Alex Bennée
2019-10-25 18:17       ` no-reply
2019-10-25 18:20       ` no-reply
2019-10-24 17:43 ` [PATCH] Semihost SYS_READC implementation (v3) no-reply

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