Re: complex instruction set compiler

ian@five-d.com (Ian Kemmish)
15 Mar 1998 15:55:15 -0500

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From: ian@five-d.com (Ian Kemmish)
Newsgroups: comp.compilers,comp.arch,comp.compilers.tools.pccts
Date: 15 Mar 1998 15:55:15 -0500
Organization: At home with Ian
References: 98-03-144
Keywords: architecture, performance, comment

vjain@ececs.uc.edu says...
> I m looking for a rich complex instruction set which has a code
>generator (or code generator generator ) to go along with it. It would


> Vipin
>[There's always the Vax back end for GCC. -John]


The compiler for Franz Lisp in BSD 4.2 (also for VAX, of course, and free on
the BSD source tapes) actually *used* the complex instructions. I *think* it
used the procedure call stuff, and I definitely remember it used the POLY
instruction, and lots of lovely addressing modes....


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[I was under the impression that the very complex Vax instructions usually
ran slower than a sequence of simpler instructions. -John]
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