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Re: generalizing the delay rtx function
- To: matthew green <mrg at cygnus dot com>
- Subject: Re: generalizing the delay rtx function
- From: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche at redhat dot com>
- Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 19:55:42 -0500
- Cc: cgen at sources dot redhat dot com
- References: <20010314080539.K32628@redhat.com> <14960.984616975@cygnus.com>
Hi -
mrg wrote:
: [...]
: you said the delay rtx would be changed to indicate the number
: of "instruction cycles" before the effect is seen. my example
: above shows a case where this isn't going to be known. if you
: didn't mean "instruction cycles" but really "instructions" then
: my point is meaningless.
Ah - a terminology glitch. "instruction cycle" == time taken for
an instruction; "instruction cycle" != "clock cycle". You're right;
I should have just used "instruction" though, to avoid the ambiguity.
- FChE
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