From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 22675 invoked by alias); 7 Dec 2009 22:10:00 -0000 Received: (qmail 22651 invoked by uid 22791); 7 Dec 2009 22:09:59 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from smtp-outbound-2.vmware.com (HELO smtp-outbound-2.vmware.com) (65.115.85.73) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Mon, 07 Dec 2009 22:09:56 +0000 Received: from mailhost3.vmware.com (mailhost3.vmware.com [10.16.27.45]) by smtp-outbound-2.vmware.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54DC93D044 for ; Mon, 7 Dec 2009 14:09:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from [10.20.94.141] (msnyder-server.eng.vmware.com [10.20.94.141]) by mailhost3.vmware.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4AF82CD921 for ; Mon, 7 Dec 2009 14:09:55 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4B1D7D18.80108@vmware.com> Date: Mon, 07 Dec 2009 22:10:00 -0000 From: Michael Snyder User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 (X11/20090624) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [RFC] Add support for Renesas RX architecture References: <20091203161906.7f7a6c06@redhat.com> <20091204173837.GD2891@adacore.com> <20091207133912.3e97099d@redhat.com> <20091207205641.GA30964@caradoc.them.org> In-Reply-To: <20091207205641.GA30964@caradoc.them.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2009-12/txt/msg00107.txt.bz2 Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 01:39:12PM -0700, Kevin Buettner wrote: >> The other cool thing about the prologue analyzer for this architecture >> is that it shares its instruction decoder with the simulator and various >> utilities in binutils. The decoder returns symbolic values for the >> instruction and operand types, making the code a lot cleaner than the >> usual mask against a hex value with a comparison to another hex value. > > Awesome! I've always wanted opcodes to do this. Absolutely! Think how useful this could be for process record!