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authorMaciej W. Rozycki <macro@imgtec.com>2016-12-23 12:42:56 +0000
committerMaciej W. Rozycki <macro@imgtec.com>2016-12-23 19:30:39 +0000
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MIPS16: Remove "extended" BREAK/SDBBP handling
Remove special casing for the `6' operand code used for the embedded trap code of the BREAK and the SDBBP instructions to support supposedly extended forms of these instructions. According to all versions of the MIPS16 ASE specifications these instructions are not extensible [1][2][3][4][5][7][8][10][11], and as from revision 2.50 of the MIPS16e ASE specifications it has been further clarified what was previously implied, that non-extesiable instructions when preceded with an EXTEND prefix must cause a Reserved Instruction exception [5][6][9][10]. Therefore supposedly extended BREAK and SDBBP instructions do not serve their purpose anymore as they do not cause a Bp and a Debug exception respectively and supporting these forms in disassembly only causes confusion. References: [1] "Product Description, MIPS16 Application-Specific Extension", Version 1.3, MIPS Technologies, Inc., 970130, Table 3. "MIPS16 Instruction Set Summary", p. 5 [2] same, Table 5 "RR Minor Opcodes (RR-type instructions)", p.10 [3] same, Table 18. "Extendable MIPS16 Instructions", p. 24 [4] "MIPS32 Architecture for Programmers, Volume IV-a: The MIPS16e Application-Specific Extension to the MIPS32 Architecture", MIPS Technologies, Inc., Document Number: MD00076, Revision 2.63, July 16, 2013, Table 3.8 "MIPS16e Special Instructions", p. 38 [5] same, Section 3.11 "MIPS16e Extensible Instructions, p. 41 [6] same, Table 3.15 "MIPS16e Extensible Instructions", p. 41 [7] same, Table 3.24 "MIPS16e RR Encoding of the Funct Field", p. 49 [8] "MIPS64 Architecture for Programmers, Volume IV-a: The MIPS16e Application-Specific Extension to the MIPS64 Architecture", MIPS Technologies, Inc., Document Number: MD00077, Revision 2.60, June 25, 2008, Table 1.8 "MIPS16e Special Instructions", p. 39 [9] same, Section 1.11 "MIPS16e Extensible Instructions", p. 42 [10] same, Table 1.15 "MIPS16e Extensible Instructions", pp. 42-43 [11] same, Table 1.24 "MIPS16e RR Encoding of the Funct Field", p. 50 gas/ * config/tc-mips.c (match_mips16_insn): Remove the `6' operand code special case and its associated comment. opcodes/ * mips16-opc.c (decode_mips16_operand) <'6'>: Remove extended encoding support.
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