On 02/16/2012 02:12 PM, Richard Henderson wrote:
[...]
index 1c19f8b..59d4560 100644
--- a/gcc/config/mips/mips.h
+++ b/gcc/config/mips/mips.h
@@ -2920,3 +2920,15 @@ extern GTY(()) struct target_globals *mips16_globals;
with arguments ARGS. */
#define PMODE_INSN(NAME, ARGS) \
(Pmode == SImode ? NAME ## _si ARGS : NAME ## _di ARGS)
+
+/* For mips32 mode we have bits 0 and 1 zero free, but for mips16 mode,
+ bit 0 indicates mips16 mode, and bit 1 is thence meaningful. Thus
+ the only "free" bits would be at the top of the address space.
+ Can we trust that we'll never try to unwind in kernel mode? */
That's too bad. I guess if we ever want to unwind in kernel mode, we
can say no mips16 and switch it to a low-order bit for that application.
Or write our own unwinder.
David Daney
