Sorry, I think I was on vacation and missed some of this... Is there a patch
on reviewboard to look at?
On Sep 3, 2011 10:26 PM, "Gabriel Michael Black" <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Does anybody have an opinion on this? If somebody wants me to wait I
> can, but if not I'd like to get this checked in.
>
> Gabe
>
> Quoting Gabe Black <[email protected]>:
>
>> I definitely intend to do more along these lines, I haven't had a chance
>> in a while and these have been sitting around. I want to get them moving
>> now that the X86_FS O3 regression is in so the don't bit rot too badly.
>>
>> One thing I didn't mention in the commit message for the decoder change
>> was that this is also a transitional step to combine SE and FS. i'm
>> thinking there will be some state in the decoder which will make it
>> return SE or FS flavors of instructions, which more or less just boils
>> down to the system call instructions and maybe one or two others. Right
>> now these tend to be preprocessor based decisions "#if FULL_SYSTEM" but
>> they could be compile time constant decisions "if (FULL_SYSTEM)" or even
>> run time if FS and SE coexist "if (fullSystem)". fullSystem or something
>> like it would live in the decoder and (I'm imagining) be in scope in the
>> decode function.
>>
>> Gabe
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