Subject: Re: INSN_EMULATION
To: Anders Magnusson <ragge@ludd.luth.se>
From: Johnny Billquist <bqt@Update.UU.SE>
List: port-vax
Date: 09/04/2000 13:23:25
On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Anders Magnusson wrote:
> >
> > Do emulated instructions tend to be needed in specific groups,
> > such that splitting up INSN_EMULATION would make sense (though
> > INSN_EMULATION could include all). Just trying to shave a few
> > bytes for those 4MB users :)
> >
> Well, G and H floats could be separated out, but I don't think it's
> so important because it is in assembles and is rather small.
> (And there is currently no emulation code for G and H :-)
> The current code is less than 3K.
Well, if we skip G and H floats, don't we have atleast a few more machines
with hardware support for the rest?
Johnny
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