On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 2:43 PM, Julius Baxter <[email protected]> wrote:
> The lwz and lws should do the same thing on 32-bit. We stuck to lwz in
> RTL and software for historical reasons. I think we should make the
> implementations work for both of these.
>
> We could also add l.lw as an instruction mnemonic for 32-bit
> implementations which is assembled as l.lwz. Perhaps this is something
> we could capture in the architecture specification update (in the
> mnemonic examples for l.lwz and l.lws)

+1.

And by the way, my or1k-src tree has much of the work towards a 64-bit
version of the toolchain already done, if anyone is interested.  It
wouldn't take much work to get a 64-bit assembler, linker, and
simulator.

-Pete
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