Re: making sizeof(void*) different from sizeof(void(*)())

["Paulo J. Matos" <paulo at matos-sorge dot com>]

Peter,

We have a working backend for an Harvard Architecture chip where 
function pointer and data pointers have necessarily different sizes. We 
couldn't do this without changing GCC itself in strategic places and 
adding some extra support in our backend. We haven't used address spaces 
or any other existing GCC solution.

Let me know if you need some further information about these changes.

Cheers,

Paulo Matos


On 28/04/12 20:32, Peter Bigot wrote:
> The MSP430's split address space and ISA make it expensive to place
> data above the 64 kB boundary, but cheap to place code there.  So I'm
> looking for a way to use HImode for data pointers, but PSImode for
> function pointers.  If gcc supports this, it's not obvious how.
>
> I get partway there with FUNCTION_MODE and some hacks for the case
> where the called object is a symbol, but not when it's a
> pointer-to-function data object.  As an example, bootstrapping fails
> in libgcc/unwind-dw2-fde.c because the fde_compare pointer-to-function
> object is stored in a HImode register instead of a PSImode register.
>
> The only candidate solution I've seen (and haven't yet tried) is to
> somehow assign all functions to be in a special named address space
> and use TARGET_ADDR_SPACE_POINTER_MODE to override the normal use of
> ptr_mode in build_pointer_type.
>
> I haven't been able to identify an existing back-end that has such a
> case, though I'd swear I've seen memory models like this for some
> other processor in the past.
>
> Could somebody suggest a workable solution for 4.7.x?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Peter


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