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Re: VLIW architectures
- To: badrian at ss dot pub dot ro, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, nik at tiuk dot ti dot com
- Subject: Re: VLIW architectures
- From: Jason Eckhardt <jle at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 20:32:47 -0800 (PST)
Nick Ing-Simmons <nik@tiuk.ti.com> writes:
>So if you are designing a VLIW machine for GCC try and make it as
>orthogonal as possible - allow any unit access to any register,
>and build in hardware stalls when schedule fails.
It is probably unwise to change the hardware design, especially in the ways
suggested above, to side-step a (temporary) deficiency in gcc.
jason.