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Re: Variable Length Execution Set?
2009/5/27 Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com>:
> Mohamed Shafi <shafitvm@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Does GCC support architectures that has Variable Length Execution Set (VLES)?
>> Are there any developments happening in this direction?
>
> gcc supports many instruction sets whose instructions are not all the
> same size, including x86. ?In particular, gcc supports ia64, which uses
> bundling. ?If you mean something else, I think you need to give more
> details.
I know that GCC supports VLIW. VLES is similar to VLIW, except that in
a packet i can have variable number of instruction. ie. each packet
should contain at least one instruction with a max of 6 instructions
in a packet.
Shafi