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Re: Variable Length Execution Set?

From: Ian Lance Taylor <iant at google dot com>
To: Mohamed Shafi <shafitvm at gmail dot com>
Cc: GCC <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 07:42:13 -0700
Subject: Re: Variable Length Execution Set?
References: <ba0bd44d0905270021y2f024581q6378a47b77820be4@mail.gmail.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.

Ian

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