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authorThiemo Seufer <ths@networkno.de>2006-04-26 18:19:15 +0000
committerThiemo Seufer <ths@networkno.de>2006-04-26 18:19:15 +0000
commitc11ae2457835b8d38d825a66257197c8c16c3137 (patch)
treeb0da6ccc20e64c4a02e4f441597ccf78d829d500 /include/opcode/mips.h
parentf5d30ac5394389f6c93626e6444a73f5de77e4b1 (diff)
downloadgdb-c11ae2457835b8d38d825a66257197c8c16c3137.tar.gz
* mips.h: Improve comments describing the bitfield instruction
fields.
Diffstat (limited to 'include/opcode/mips.h')
-rw-r--r--include/opcode/mips.h11
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/include/opcode/mips.h b/include/opcode/mips.h
index 4bec5edcc8c..ae3f437484b 100644
--- a/include/opcode/mips.h
+++ b/include/opcode/mips.h
@@ -268,19 +268,20 @@ struct mips_opcode
"x" accept and ignore register name
"z" must be zero register
"K" 5 bit Hardware Register (rdhwr instruction) (OP_*_RD)
- "+A" 5 bit ins/ext position, which becomes LSB (OP_*_SHAMT).
+ "+A" 5 bit ins/ext/dins/dext/dinsm/dextm position, which becomes
+ LSB (OP_*_SHAMT).
Enforces: 0 <= pos < 32.
- "+B" 5 bit ins size, which becomes MSB (OP_*_INSMSB).
+ "+B" 5 bit ins/dins size, which becomes MSB (OP_*_INSMSB).
Requires that "+A" or "+E" occur first to set position.
Enforces: 0 < (pos+size) <= 32.
- "+C" 5 bit ext size, which becomes MSBD (OP_*_EXTMSBD).
+ "+C" 5 bit ext/dext size, which becomes MSBD (OP_*_EXTMSBD).
Requires that "+A" or "+E" occur first to set position.
Enforces: 0 < (pos+size) <= 32.
(Also used by "dext" w/ different limits, but limits for
that are checked by the M_DEXT macro.)
- "+E" 5 bit dins/dext position, which becomes LSB-32 (OP_*_SHAMT).
+ "+E" 5 bit dinsu/dextu position, which becomes LSB-32 (OP_*_SHAMT).
Enforces: 32 <= pos < 64.
- "+F" 5 bit "dinsm" size, which becomes MSB-32 (OP_*_INSMSB).
+ "+F" 5 bit "dinsm/dinsu" size, which becomes MSB-32 (OP_*_INSMSB).
Requires that "+A" or "+E" occur first to set position.
Enforces: 32 < (pos+size) <= 64.
"+G" 5 bit "dextm" size, which becomes MSBD-32 (OP_*_EXTMSBD).