Re: tracking pointers in hardware

2006-03-02 Thread Jim Wilson
Yoav Etsion wrote: I'm designing a new hardware that needs to know which GPR contains a simple integer, and which contained pointer. The hardware simply needs different load operations for both (we're talking load/store machines, with no indirect addressing to make life easier). You can try u

tracking pointers in hardware

2006-03-01 Thread Yoav Etsion
Hi all, I'm designing a new hardware that needs to know which GPR contains a simple integer, and which contained pointer. The hardware simply needs different load operations for both (we're talking load/store machines, with no indirect addressing to make life easier). From the compiler's per