Mohamed Shafi <shafi...@gmail.com> writes: > 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.
Sounds like ia64 to me. Ian
