Re: [pcre-dev] Question about sljit_emit_enter

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Szerző: Zoltan Herczeg
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Címzett: WANG.Jiong
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Tárgy: Re: [pcre-dev] Question about sljit_emit_enter
Hi,

yes, you are right again. If sljit_is_fpu_available() returns with zero,
floating point operations are not available.

Regards,
Zoltan

PS: I will not be available in the rest of the week, so I can only answer
further questions on Monday.

"WANG.Jiong" <wong.kwongyuan@???> írta:
>Zoltan,>
>

thanks very much!>
>

the other question is:>
>

     looks like float type is not necessary in JIT ?  those XXX_fop is >
not used ?>

>

--->
Jiong>
>

on 2013/6/6 18:41, Zoltan Herczeg wrote:>
> Hi,>
>>
> yes, your guess is right in both cases.>
>>
> On mips:>
> 1 - for saving the return register>
> 4 - excerpt form the MIPS ABI: In a non-leaf function the maximum number>
> of bytes of arguments used to call other functions from the non-leaf>
> function must be allocated. However, at least four words (16 bytes) must>
> always be reserved, even if the maximum number of arguments to any called>
> function is fewer than four words.>
> In SLJIT we can pass maximum of 3, machine word sized arguments to a>
> function.>
>>
> ARM has much less scratch registers than MIPS, and sometimes we need to>
> use saved registers for scratch.>
>>
> Btw the JIT compiler has a separate repository, where additional test>
> cases are available:>
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/sljit/>
>>
> Regards,>
> Zoltan>
>>
> "WANG.Jiong" <wong.kwongyuan@???> írta:>
>> Hi All,>>
>>>
> I am trying to port PCRE to a VLIW processor and I am studing MIPS>>
> backend to warm up with the code.>>
> But the following things confused me:>>
>>>
> in sljit/sljitNativeMIPS_common.c:>>
> 475 local_size += (saveds + 1 + 4) * sizeof(sljit_sw);>>
> how does the "saveds + 1 + 4" comes ? I guess "1" means the extra return>>
> address register, but what does "4" mean? the shadown area on mips stack

?>>
> and I found ARM backend will push the last two scratch registers on>>
> stack, while mips don't, could anyone give me some hint on this? just>>
> because ARM don't have enough caller saved registers to be used as>>
> scratch register?>>
> thanks in advance !>>
> --->>
> Regards,>>
> Jiong>>
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