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Re: How to clean up i386 machine description?
- To: Colin Douglas Howell <howell at cs dot stanford dot edu>
- Subject: Re: How to clean up i386 machine description?
- From: Jeffrey A Law <law at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 12:26:42 -0700
- cc: amylaar at cygnus dot co dot uk (Joern Rennecke), rth at cygnus dot com, hubicka at horac dot ta dot jcu dot cz, pcg at goof dot com, egcs at cygnus dot com
- Reply-To: law at cygnus dot com
In message <199811122144.NAA19144@Sunburn.Stanford.EDU>you write:
> I don't think the goal is to have a clean-looking machine description;
> the x86 architecture is itself too messy for that.
I disagree. It *is* one of the goals. Messy machine descriptions lead to
bugs and long term maintenance problems. We should be addressing those
issues as well as the performance issues.
jeff