On Fri, 10 Sep 2010 08:55:47 -0500, Ali Saidi <[email protected]> wrote:
> We just changed the micro-ops in ARM so that any of the register
> updating loads/stores were micro-coded, calculated the new address,
> placed it in a temp register, loaded from the temp, and the moved the
> temp into the real register. This solution worked fine for both O3 and
> the simple cpus. Since ARM has some interesting options for PC
> relative loads and loading the PC via a load, I think you can pretty
> much accomplish anything with three carefully crafted micro-ops.

Furthering the legal hysteria, I simply mean the way an intern chose to
solve the problem without any knowledge of how it is done in any current
or future ARM.

Ali

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