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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 09/12] tcg-sparc: Drop use of Bicc in favor of B


From: Richard Henderson
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 09/12] tcg-sparc: Drop use of Bicc in favor of BPcc
Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2012 10:21:22 -0700
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On 2012-09-29 05:07, Blue Swirl wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 1:55 AM, Richard Henderson <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Now that we're always sparcv9, we can not bother using Bicc for
>> 32-bit branches and BPcc for 64-bit branches and instead always
>> use BPcc.
> 
> But then the branch range is smaller (19 bits). The code buffer is
> 32M, wouldn't we use BPcc for TB linking too and then the range could
> be exceed?

We use CALL for TB linking, with its 30 bit range.

BPcc is only needed within a TB, which should never come close to 2MB.


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