Jason King wrote:
> As a potential follow on to my work with implementing an unencumbered
> sparc libdisasm, I was wondering if there would be interest in adding
> ASI name support to the disassembly.
>
> I.e. instead of:
>
> lda [%r1 + %r2] 0x80, %r3
>
> you'd see
>
> lda [%r1 + %r2] ASI_P, %r3
>
> or perhaps
>
> lda [%r1 + %r2] ASI_PRIMARY, %r3
>
> Similar for sta, etc.
>
> Myself, I find symbolic names easier to remember/deal with than
> arbitrary numbers, but I'd rather get the opinions of those who would
> be using this far more regularly than I would (I'm hoping they're
> reading these lists).
>
I suspect that the use of alternate ASIs is infrequent enough to not
really be worth it.
When I've used alternate ASIs they were to access chip specifics that I
couldn't get any other way. It was only in a tiny, tiny bit of code,
and I don't think you could have used a meaningful name. (IIRC, the ASI
used was one reserved for implementations.)
-- Garrett
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