2009/5/27 Ian Lance Taylor <i...@google.com>: > Mohamed Shafi <shafi...@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.
I know that GCC supports VLIW. VLES is similar to VLIW, except that in a packet i can have variable number of instruction. ie. each packet should contain at least one instruction with a max of 6 instructions in a packet. Shafi
