Re: PowerPC 'future' patches introduction

2019-08-14 Thread Segher Boessenkool
Hi Mike, On Wed, Aug 14, 2019 at 04:57:32PM -0400, Michael Meissner wrote: > to the current location instead of a base register, giving pc-relative > addressing. Pc-relative addressing will be supported in the next ABI (3.1) as > an alternative to the current TOC based addressing. That's not an

PowerPC 'future' patches introduction

2019-08-14 Thread Michael Meissner
I will be submitting 10 patches will that will add support to GCC for a possible future PowerPC processor. These patches add support for new instructions that extend the offsettable memory instructions (D, DS, or DQ instruction formats) to have 34 bit offsets (instead of 16, 14, or 12 bits