Re: RFA: contribute Renesas M32C sim

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>]

On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 05:43:06PM -0500, DJ Delorie wrote:
> 
> > >> + void
> > >> + prefix (src_allowed, dest_allowed, index_bytewidth)
> > >> + {
> > >> + }
> > >
> > > And what's that for?
> > 
> > I don't know.  I thought it was some sort of annotation for opc2c to
> > consume, but that doesn't seem to be so.  I'll find out.
> 
> I remember talking to Jim about this, but I don't see him answering in
> the mail archives, and since I was checking on the m32c/gdb status I
> figured I'd at least get this one answered.
> 
> In short, that function exists so it can be called, it's the callers
> that are important at the moment.
> 
> The callers act as documentation for what prefixes and indexes are
> permitted for each opcode.  As I was going through the tedious process
> of implementing each opcode, I added all the calls to prefix() with
> the correct arguments.  The function does nothing yet, but at some
> point in the future it may fault if prefixes are used where the real
> chip doesn't support them.

Then please add some useful information there, so that the next
reviewer through the code does not remove it :-)

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Daniel Jacobowitz
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