similar to: [LLVMdev] micro mips/mips32

The problem is that everything about the mips32 and micro mips 16 instruction is the same, aside from the encoding in to binary. Seems like maybe we need to extend the notion of an instruction so that it can have alternate encodings depending on subtarget. On 09/05/2012 08:28 PM, Jim Grosbach wrote: > The instructions are defined by their encodings, not the assembly syntax. You want

My understanding was that micro mips was similar to Thumb2, in that the smaller encodings have constraints on which registers can be read/written, because of the narrowing of the register fields in the encoding. If that's the case, then it definitely makes sense to model the micro mips instruction set as distinct from the mips32 instruction set, in basically the same way that Thumb2 is done.

The instructions are defined by their encodings, not the assembly syntax. You want separate instruction definitions for the different encodings and select. Between them in the assembler via sub target features. See ARM handling of thumb vs thumb2 vs arm for examples of how to do this. On Sep 5, 2012, at 6:59 PM, reed kotler <rkotler at mips.com> wrote: > The micro mips processor

We are starting to look at the mips16 and micro mips ports. There are various design issues that people may have some good input on. Especially in how to structure the TD files and other optimizer issues. Mips16 is sort of like thumb and Micro Mips like thumb2 as far as I understand. Mips16 or Micro Mips can live inside of either MIPS32 or MIPS64. In gcc, it's possible using attributes to

Micro mips is really 100% .s compatible with mips32. There are no register field size constraints and such. It's a strict superset of mips32. For the gcc port, the assembler is basically the only thing we changed. The gcc port was just adding the ".micromips" directive to the .s file and maybe some tiny driver work. That is the quandary. The entire .td file would have to be

On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 1:59 PM, reed kotler <rkotler at mips.com> wrote: > We are starting to look at the mips16 and micro mips ports. > > There are various design issues that people may have some good input on. > Especially in how to structure the TD files and other optimizer issues. > > Mips16 is sort of like thumb and Micro Mips like thumb2 as far as I > understand.

I'm working on the mips16. Mips16 is a mode of the Mips32 (or Mips64) processor. For the most part, it is a compressed form of the MIPS32 instruction set, though not all instructions are supported. Most of the same opcodes and formats are present though sometimes with some restriction. (The micro mips architecture is a true 16 bit compressed form of MIps32 though also with some

On 05/14/2012 02:42 PM, Jakob Stoklund Olesen wrote: > On May 14, 2012, at 2:28 PM, reed kotler wrote: > >> I'm not using getMinimalPhysRegClass. Some target independent code is using it. > Probably PEI. > >> It makes trouble for us and I would like to submit a patch to make it a virtual function so that I can override it and make it meaningful for Mips, as long as this

Is it possible to assign the value of subtarget features using more complex expressions with code as opposed to using the mechanism that tablegen affords. For example, if Mips16 or Micro Mips is not present, then I want the subfeature "standard encoding". If I can't do this, then it requires me to write a more complex expression for the "standard encoding" expresions.

Reed, On May 14, 2012, at 3:45 PM, reed kotler <rkotler at mips.com> wrote: > On 05/14/2012 02:42 PM, Jakob Stoklund Olesen wrote: >> On May 14, 2012, at 2:28 PM, reed kotler wrote: >> >>> I'm not using getMinimalPhysRegClass. Some target independent code is using it. >> Probably PEI. >> >>> It makes trouble for us and I would like to

We already divided out our classes as you did for ARM. The problem here is that we have a store/load byte/halfword to/from a Frame object. We know at that time that it's not going to be possible to store it using SP because there is only such instructions for store/load of a word. What we would want to do is to move SP into a Mips 16 register and then do a indexed load/store off of that

Actually, SP is already not in the mips 16 register class but there is some C++ code that is common to mips32, mips64 and mips16 that is wanting to use SP. It's kind of awkward but does work except in this case of load/store haflword and byte to stack objects. Maybe I'm shooting myself in the foot there. I don't know that code too well so maybe I need to look into it. There are

Ok. That's a somewhat different problem, then. Devil will be in the details of what you want to do. A few options. First is to always have a standard frame pointer register available and reference off of that. Caveat: dynamic stack realignment and vararrays muck with that more than a bit. Second is what gcc is doing and reserve a register just for this in addition to the frame register.

On Jan 24, 2012, at 1:46 AM, Reed Kotler wrote: > Mips16 is a mode of the Mips32 (or Mips64) processor. For the most part, > it is a compressed form of the MIPS32 instruction set, though not all > instructions are supported. Most of the same opcodes and formats are > present though sometimes with some restriction. (The micro mips > architecture is a true 16 bit compressed form

On 01/04/2013 07:45 PM, Eli Friedman wrote: > On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 6:28 PM, reed kotler <rkotler at mips.com> wrote: >> On 01/04/2013 06:08 PM, Eli Friedman wrote: >>> On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 4:08 PM, reed kotler <rkotler at mips.com> wrote: >>>> I'm working on mips16 hard float which at a first approximation is just >>>> soft

On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 4:16 PM, reed kotler <rkotler at mips.com> wrote: > On 01/04/2013 07:45 PM, Eli Friedman wrote: >> >> On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 6:28 PM, reed kotler <rkotler at mips.com> wrote: >>> >>> On 01/04/2013 06:08 PM, Eli Friedman wrote: >>>> >>>> On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 4:08 PM, reed kotler <rkotler at mips.com>

Trying to think of a clever way to do something.... On Mips 16, the SP (stack pointer) is not a directly accessible register in most instructions. There is a way to move to and from mips 16 registers (subset of mips32) and mips32 registers. For the load/store word instructions, there are forms which implicitly take SP. However, for store/load byte and store/load halfword, there is no such

On Sep 20, 2012, at 11:44 PM, Reed Kotler <rkotler at mips.com> wrote: > Actually, SP is already not in the mips 16 register class but there is some C++ code that is common to mips32, mips64 and mips16 that is wanting to use SP. It's kind of awkward but does work except in this case of load/store haflword and byte to stack objects. > ARM has a similar problem. The InstrInfo

Turned out to be a rather simple fix. Just copied SP to a virtual register in the beginning of the function. Then added an extra operand to the DAGs with stack reference load/store, with the extra operand equal to this virtual register if the Parent of the address is a LOAD/STORE of an 8 or 16 bit quantity. It worked fine. When needed SP got copied to a mips 16 register and when the SP alias

We have NFS mounted drives. I first build an clang/llvm hosted compiler for Mips linux using the clang/llvm linux x86 compiler. Call this clang1. then in directory recurse on Mips host, I place this clang1 compiler and build clang2. then i rename recurse to recurse1 and create a new recurse directory. in recurse I copy clang2 from recurse1 to a recurse but name it clang1. then i build