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This file documents the internals of the GNU compiler.

Copyright (C) 1987 Richard M. Stallman.

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File: internals  Node: Dependent Patterns, Prev: Standard Names, Up: Machine Desc

Patterns Require Other Patterns
===============================

Every machine description must have a named pattern for each of the
conditional branch names `bCOND'.  The recognition template
must always have the form

     (set (pc)
          (if_then_else (COND (cc0) (const_int 0))
                        (label_ref (match_operand 0 "" ""))
                        (pc)))

In addition, every machine description must have an anonymous pattern
for each of the possible reverse-conditional branches.  These patterns
look like

     (set (pc)
          (if_then_else (COND (cc0) (const_int 0))
                        (pc)
                        (label_ref (match_operand 0 "" ""))))

They are necessary because jump optimization can turn direct-conditional
branches into reverse-conditional branches.

The compiler does more with RTL than just create it from patterns
and recognize the patterns: it can perform arithmetic expression codes
when constant values for their operands can be determined.  As a result,
sometimes having one pattern can require other patterns.  For example, the
Vax has no `and' instruction, but it has `and not' instructions.  Here
is the definition of one of them:

     (define_insn "andcbsi2"
       [(set (match_operand:SI 0 "general_operand" "")
             (and:SI (match_dup 0)
                     (not:SI (match_operand:SI
                               1 "general_operand" ""))))]
       ""
       "bicl2 %1,%0")

If operand 1 is an explicit integer constant, an instruction constructed
using that pattern can end up looking like

     (set (reg:SI 41)
          (and:SI (reg:SI 41)
                  (const_int 0xffff7fff)))

(where the integer constant is the one's complement of what
appeared in the original instruction).

To avoid a fatal error, the compiler must have a pattern that recognizes
such an instruction.  Here is what is used:

     (define_insn ""
       [(set (match_operand:SI 0 "general_operand" "")
             (and:SI (match_dup 0)
                     (match_operand:SI 1 "general_operand" "")))]
       "GET_CODE (operands[1]) == CONST_INT"
       "*
     { operands[1]
         = gen_rtx (CONST_INT, VOIDmode, ~INTVAL (operands[1]));
       return \"bicl2 %1,%0\";
     }")

Whereas a pattern to match a general `and' instruction is impossible to
support on the Vax, this pattern is possible because it matches only a
constant second argument: a special case that can be output as an `and not'
instruction.


File: internals  Node: Machine Macros, Prev: Machine Desc, Up: Top

Machine Description Macros
**************************

The other half of the machine description is a C header file conventionally
given the name `tm-MACHINE.h'.  The file `tm.h' should be a
link to it.  The header file `config.h' includes `tm.h' and most
compiler source files include `config.h'.

* Menu:

* Run-time Target::     Defining -m switches like -m68000 and -m68020.
* Storage Layout::      Defining sizes and alignments of data types.
* Registers::           Naming and describing the hardware registers.
* Register Classes::    Defining the classes of hardware registers.
* Stack Layout::        Defining which way the stack grows and by how much.
* Addressing Modes::    Defining addressing modes valid for memory operands.
* Condition Code::      Defining how insns update the condition code.
* Assembler Format::    Defining how to write insns and pseudo-ops to output.
* Misc::                Everything else.


File: internals  Node: Run-time Target, Prev: Machine Macros, Up: Machine Macros, Next: Storage Layout

Run-time Target Specification
=============================

`CPP_PREDEFINES'     
     Define this to be a string constant containing `-D' switches
     to define the predefined macros that identify this machine and system.
     
     For example, on the Sun, one can use the value
     
          "-Dmc68000 -Dsun"
     
`extern int target_flags;'     
     This declaration should be present.
     
`TARGET_...'     
     This series of macros is to allow compiler command arguments to
     enable or disable the use of optional features of the target machine.
     For example, one machine description serves both the 68000 and
     the 68020; a command argument tells the compiler whether it should
     use 68020-only instructions or not.  This command argument works
     by means of a macro `TARGET_68020' that tests a bit in
     `target_flags'.
     
     Define a macro `TARGET_FEATURENAME' for each such option.
     Its definition should test a bit in `target_flags'; for example:
     
          #define TARGET_68020 (target_flags & 1)
     
     One place where these macros are used is in the condition-expressions
     of instruction patterns.  Note how `TARGET_68020' appears
     frequently in the 68000 machine description file, `m68000.md'.
     Another place they are used is in the definitions of the other
     macros in the `tm-MACHINE.h' file.
     
`TARGET_SWITCHES'     
     This macro defines names of command switches to set and clear
     bits in `target_flags'.  Its definition is an initializer
     with a subgrouping for each command switches.
     
     Each subgrouping contains a string constant, that defines the switch
     name, and a number, which contains the bits to set in
     `target_flags'.  A negative number says to clear bits instead;
     the negative of the number is which bits to clear.  The actual switch
     name is made by appending `-m' to the specified name.
     
     One of the subgroupings should have a null string.  The number in
     this grouping is the default value for `target_flags'.  Any
     target switches act starting with that value.
     
     Here is an example which defines `-m68000' and `-m68020'
     with opposite meanings, and picks the latter as the default:
     
          #define TARGET_SWITCHES \
            { { "68020", 1},      \
              { "68000", -1},     \
              { "", 1}}


File: internals  Node: Storage Layout, Prev: Run-time Target, Up: Machine Macros, Next: Registers

Storage Layout
==============

`BITS_BIG_ENDIAN'     
     Define this macro if the most significant bit in a byte has the lowest
     number.  This means that bit-field instructions count from the most
     significant bit.  If the machine has no bit-field instructions, this
     macro is irrelevant.
     
`BYTES_BIG_ENDIAN'     
     Define this macro if the most significant byte in a word has the
     lowest number.
     
`WORDS_BIG_ENDIAN'     
     Define this macro if, in a multiword object, the most signficant
     word has the lowest number.
     
`BITS_PER_UNIT'     
     Number of bits in an addressable storage unit (byte); normally 8.
     
`BITS_PER_WORD'     
     Number of bits in a word; normally 32.
     
`UNITS_PER_WORD'     
     Number of storage units in a word; normally 4.
     
`POINTER_SIZE'     
     Width of a pointer, in bits.
     
`PARM_BOUNDARY'     
     Alignment required for pointers, in bits.
     
`FUNCTION_BOUNDARY'     
     Alignment required for a function entry point, in bits.
     
`BIGGEST_ALIGNMENT'     
     Biggest alignment that anything can require on this machine, in bits.
     
`STRICT_ALIGNMENT'     
     Define this if instructions will fail to work if given data not
     on the nominal alignment.  If instructions will merely go slower
     in that case, do not define this macro.


File: internals  Node: Registers, Prev: Storage Layout, Up: Machine Macros, Next: Register Classes

Register Usage
==============

`FIRST_PSEUDO_REGISTER'     
     Number of hardware registers known to the compiler.  They receive
     numbers 0 through `FIRST_PSEUDO_REGISTER-1'; thus, the first
     pseudo register's number really is assigned the number7
     `FIRST_PSEUDO_REGISTER'.
     
`FIXED_REGISTERS'     
     An initializer that says which registers are used for fixed purposes
     all throughout the compiled code and are therefore not available for
     general allocation.  These would inclue the stack pointer, the frame
     pointer, the program counter on machines where that is considered one
     of the addressable registers, and any other numbered register with a
     standard use.
     
     This information is expressed as a sequence of numbers, separated by
     commas and surrounded by braces.  The Nth number is 1 if
     register N is fixed, 0 otherwise
     
`CALL_USED_REGISTERS'     
     Like `FIXED_REGISTERS' but has 1 for each register that is
     clobbered (in general) by function calls as well as for fixed
     registers.  This macro therefore identifies the registers that are not
     available for general allocation of values that must live across
     function calls.
     
     If a registers has 0 in `CALL_USED_REGISTERS', the compiler
     automatically saves it on function entry and restores it on function
     exit, if the register is used within the function.
     
`HARD_REGNO_REGS (REGNO, MODE)'     
     A C expression for the number of consecutive hard registers, starting
     at register number REGNO, required to hold a value of mode
     MODE.
     
     On a machine where all registers are exactly one word, a suitable
     definition of this macro is
     
          #define HARD_REGNO_NREGS(REGNO, MODE)            \
             ((GET_MODE_SIZE (MODE) + UNITS_PER_WORD - 1)  \
              / UNITS_PER_WORD))
     
`HARD_REGNO_MODE_OK (REGNO, MODE)'     
     A C expression that is nonzero if it is permissible to store a value
     of mode MODE in hard register number REGNO (or in several
     registers starting with that one).  For a machine where all registers
     are equivalent, a suitable definition is
     
          #define HARD_REGNO_MODE_OK(REGNO, MODE) 1
     
     It is not necessary for this macro to check for fixed register numbers
     because the allocation mechanism considers them to be always occupied.
     
`MODES_TIEABLE_P (MODE1, MODE2)'     
     A C expression that is nonzero if it is desirable to choose register
     allocation so as to avoid move instructions between a value of mode
     MODE1 and a value of mode MODE2.
     
     If `HARD_REGNO_MODE_OK (R, MODE1)' and
     `HARD_REGNO_MODE_OK (R, MODE2)' are ever different
     for any R, then `MODES_TIEABLE_P (MODE1,
     MODE2)' must be zero.
     
`PC_REGNUM'     
     If the program counter has a register number, define this as that
     register number.  Otherwise, do not define it.
     
`STACK_POINTER_REGNUM'     
     The register number of the stack pointer register, which must also be
     a fixed register according to `FIXED_REGISTERS'.  On many
     machines, the hardware determines which register this is.
     
`FRAME_POINTER_REGNUM'     
     The register number of the frame pointer register, which is used to
     access automatic variables in the stack frame.  It must also described
     in `FIXED_REGISTERS' as a fixed register.  On some machines, the
     hardware determines which register this is.  On other machines, you
     can choose any register you wish for this purpose.
     
`ARG_POINTER_REGNUM'     
     The register number of the arg pointer register, which is used to
     access the function's argument list.  On some machines, this is the
     same as the frame pointer register.  On some machines, the hardware
     determines which register this is.  On other machines, you can choose
     any register you wish for this purpose.  It must in any case be a
     fixed register according to `FIXED_REGISTERS'.
     
`STATIC_CHAIN_REGNUM'     
     The register number used for passing a function's static chain
     pointer.  This is needed for languages such as Pascal and Algol where
     functions defined within other functions can access the local
     variables of the outer functions; it is not currently used because C
     does not provide this feature.
     
     The static chain register need not be a fixed register.
     
`FUNCTION_VALUE_REGNUM'     
     The register number used for returning values from a function.  This
     must be one of the call-used registers (since function calls alter
     it!) but should not be a fixed register.  When the value being
     returned has a multi-word machine mode, multiple consecutive registers
     starting with the specified one are used.
     
`STRUCT_VALUE_REGNUM'     
     When a function's value's mode is `BLKmode', the value is not returned
     in the register `FUNCTION_VALUE_REGNUM'.  Instead, the caller passes
     the address of a block of memory in which the value should be stored.
     `STRUCT_VALUE_REGNUM' is the register in which this address is passed.


File: internals  Node: Register Classes, Prev: Registers, Up: Machine Macros, Next: Stack Layout

Register Classes
================

On many machines, the numbered registers are not all equivalent.
For example, certain registers may not be allowed for indexed addressing;
certain registers may not be allowed in some instructions.  These machine
restrictions are described to the compiler using "register classes".

You define a number of register classes, giving each one a name and saying
which of the registers belong to it.  Then you can specify register classes
that are allowed as operands to particular instruction patterns.

In general, each register will belong to several classes.  In fact, one
class must be named `ALL_REGS' and contain all the registers.  Another
class must be named `NO_REGS' and contain no registers.  Often the
union of two classes will be another class; however, this is not required.

One of the classes must be named `GENERAL_REGS'.  There is nothing
terribly special about the name, but the operand constraint letters
`r' and `g' specify this class.  If `GENERAL_REGS' is
the same as `ALL_REGS', just define it as a macro which expands
to `ALL_REGS'.

The way classes other than `GENERAL_REGS' are specified in operand
constraints is through machine-dependent operand constraint letters.
You can define such letters to correspond to various classes, then use
them in operand constraints.

You must also specify certain redundant information about the register
classes: for each class, which classes contain it and which ones are
contained in it; for each pair of classes, the largest class contained
in their union.

`enum reg_class'     
     An enumeral type that must be defined with all the register class names
     as enumeral values.  `NO_REGS' must be first.  `ALL_REGS'
     must be the last register class, followed by one more enumeral value,
     `LIM_REG_CLASSES', which is not a register class but rather
     tells how many classes there are.
     
     Each register class has a number, which is the value of casting
     the class name to type `int'.  The number serves as an index
     in many of the tables described below.
     
`REG_CLASS_NAMES'     
     An initializer containing the names of the register classes as C string
     constants.  These names are used in writing some of the debugging dumps.
     
`REG_CLASS_CONTENTS'     
     An initializer containing the contents of the register classes, as integers
     which are bit masks.  The Nth integer specifies the contents of class
     N.  The way the integer MASK is interpreted is that
     register R is in the class if `MASK & (1 << R)' is 1.
     
     When the machine has more than 32 registers, an integer does not suffice.
     Then the integers are replaced by sub-initializers, braced groupings containing
     several integers.  Each sub-initializer must be suitable as an initializer
     for the type `HARD_REG_SET' which is defined in `hard-reg-set.h'.
     
`REGNO_REG_CLASS (REGNO)'     
     A C expression whose value is a register class containing hard register
     REGNO.  In general there is more that one such class; choose a class
     which is "minimal", meaning that no smaller class also contains the
     register.
     
`REG_CLASS_SUPERCLASSES'     
     A two-level initializer that says, for each class, which classes contain
     it.  The Nth element of the initializer is a sub-initializer for
     class N; it contains the names of the othe classes that contain class
     N (but not the name of class N itself), followed by
     `LIM_REG_CLASSES' to mark the end of the element.
     
`REG_CLASS_SUBCLASSES'     
     Similar to `REG_CLASS_SUPERCLASSES', except that element N lists
     the classes *contained in* class N, followed once again by
     `LIM_REG_CLASSES' to mark the end of the element.
     
`REG_CLASS_SUBUNION'     
     An two-level initializer for a two-dimensional array.  The element
     (M, N) of this array must be a class that is "close to"
     being the union of classes M and N.  If there is a class
     that is exactly that union, use it; otherwise, choose some smaller
     class, preferably as large as possible but certainly not containing
     any register that is neither in class M nor in class N.
     
`INDEX_REG_CLASS'     
     A macro whose definition is the name of the class to which a valid index
     register must belong.
     
`REG_CLASS_FROM_LETTER (CHAR)'     
     A C expression which defines the machine-dependent operand constraint
     letters for register classes.  If CHAR is such a letter, the value
     should be the register class corresponding to it.  Otherwise, the value
     should be `NO_REGS'.
     
`REGNO_OK_FOR_CLASS_P (REGNO, CLASS)'     
     A C expression which is nonzero if register number REGNO is a hard
     register belonging to class CLASS.  The expression is always zero if
     REGNO is a pseudo register.
     
`REG_OK_FOR_CLASS_P (REG, CLASS)'     
     A C expression which is nonzero if REG (an rtx assumed to have
     code `reg') belongs to class CLASS.
     
     What about pseudo registers?  There are two alternatives, and the machine
     description header file must be able to do either one on command.  If the
     macro `REG_OK_STRICT' is defined, this macro should be defined to
     reject all pseudo registers (return 0 for them).  Otherwise, this macro
     should be defined to accept all pseudo registers (return 1 for them).
     
     Some source files of the compiler define `REG_OK_STRICT' before
     including the machine description header file, while others do not,
     according to the needs of that part of the compiler.
     
`PREFERRED_RELOAD_CLASS (X, CLASS)'     
     A C expression that places additional restrictions on the register class
     to use when it is necessary to copy value X into a register in class
     CLASS.  The value is a register class; perhaps CLASS, or perhaps
     another, smaller class.  CLASS is always safe as a value.  In fact,
     the definition
     
          #define PREFERRED_RELOAD_CLASS(X,CLASS) CLASS
     
     is always safe.  However, sometimes returning a more restrictive class
     makes better code.  For example, on the 68000, when X is an
     integer constant that is in range for a `moveq' instruction,
     the value of this macro is always `DATA_REGS' as long as
     CLASS includes the data registers.  Requiring a data register
     guarantees that a `moveq' will be used.

Two other special macros

`CONST_OK_FOR_LETTER_P (VALUE, C)'     
     A C expression that defines the machine-dependent operand constraint letters
     that specify particular ranges of integer values.  If C is one
     of those letters, the expression should check that VALUE, an integer,
     is in the appropriate range and return 1 if so, 0 otherwise.  If C is
     not one of those letters, the value should be 0 regardless of VALUE.
     
`CONST_DOUBLE_OK_FOR_LETTER_P (VALUE, C)'     
     A C expression that defines the machine-dependent operand constraint
     letters that specify particular ranges of floating values.  If C is
     one of those letters, the expression should check that VALUE, an rtx
     of code `const_double', is in the appropriate range and return 1 if
     so, 0 otherwise.  If C is not one of those letters, the value should
     be 0 regardless of VALUE.


File: internals  Node: Stack Layout, Prev: Register Classes, Up: Machine Macros, Next: Addressing Modes

Describing Stack Layout
=======================

`STACK_GROWS_DOWNWARD'     
     Define this macro if pushing a word onto the stack moves the stack
     pointer to a smaller address.  The definition is irrelevant because the
     compiler checks this macro with `#ifdef'.
     
`FRAME_GROWS_DOWNWARD'     
     Define this macro if the addresses of local variable slots are at negative
     offsets from the frame pointer.
     
`STARTING_FRAME_OFFSET'     
     Offset from the frame pointer to the first local variable slot to be allocated.
     
     If `FRAME_GROWS_DOWNWARD', the next slot's offset is found by
     subtracting the length of the first slot from `STARTING_FRAME_OFFSET'.
     Otherwise, it is found by adding the length of the first slot to
     the value `STARTING_FRAME_OFFSET'.
     
`PUSH_ROUNDING (NPUSHED)'     
     A C expression that is the number of bytes actually pushed onto the
     stack when an instruction attempts to push NPUSHED bytes.
     
     On some machines, the definition
     
          #define PUSH_ROUNDING(BYTES) (BYTES)
     
     will suffice.  But on other machines, instructions that appear
     to push one byte actually push two bytes in an attempt to maintain
     alignment.  Then the definition should be
     
          #define PUSH_ROUNDING(BYTES) (((BYTES) + 1) & ~1)
     
`FIRST_PARM_OFFSET'     
     Offset from the argument pointer register to the first argument's address.
     
`RETURN_POPS_ARGS'     
     Define this macro if returning from a function automatically pops the
     function's arguments.  Do not define it if the caller must pop them.
     
`FUNCTION_PROLOGUE (FILE, SIZE)'     
     A C compound statement that outputs the assembler code for entry to a
     function.  The prologue is responsible for setting up the stack frame,
     initializing the frame pointer register, saving registers that must be
     saved, and allocating SIZE additional bytes of storage for the local
     variables.  SIZE is an integer.  FILE is a stdio stream to
     which the assembler code should be output.
     
     The label for the beginning of the function need not be output by this
     macro.  That has already been done when the macro is run.
     
     To determine which registers to save, the macro can refer to the array
     `regs_ever_live': element R is nonzero if hard register R
     is used anywhere within the function.  This implies the function prologue
     should save register R, but not if it is one of the call-used
     registers.
     
`FUNCTION_EPILOGUE (FILE, SIZE)'     
     A C compound statement that outputs the assembler code for exit from a
     function.  The epilogue is responsible for restoring the saved
     registers and stack pointer to their values when the function was
     called, and returning control to the caller.  This macro takes the
     same arguments as the macro `FUNCTION_PROLOGUE', and the
     registers to restore are determined from `regs_ever_live' and
     `CALL_USED_REGISTERS' in the same way.
     
     On some machines, there is a single instruction that does all the work of
     returning from the function.  On these machines, give that instruction the
     name `return' and do not define the macro `FUNCTION_EPILOGUE' at
     all.


File: internals  Node: Addressing Modes, Prev: Stack Layout, Up: Machine Macros, Next: Misc

Addressing Modes
================

`HAVE_POST_INCREMENT'     
     Define this macro if the machine supports post-increment addressing.
     
`HAVE_PRE_INCREMENT'     
`HAVE_POST_DECREMENT'     
`HAVE_PRE_DECREMENT'     
     Similar for other kinds of addressing.
     
`CONSTANT_ADDRESS_P (X)'     
     A C expression that is 1 if the rtx X is a constant whose value
     is an integer.  This includes integers whose values are not explicitly
     known, such as `symbol_ref' and `label_ref' expressions
     and `const' arithmetic expressions.
     
`MAX_REGS_PER_ADDRESS'     
     A number, the maximum number of registers that can appear in a valid
     memory address.
     
`GO_IF_LEGITIMATE_ADDRESS (MODE, X, LABEL)'     
     A C compound statement with a conditional `goto LABEL;'
     executed if X (an rtx) is a legitimate memory address on
     the target machine for a memory operand of mode MODE.
     
     It usually pays to define several simpler macros to serve as
     subroutines for this one.  Otherwise it may be too complicated
     to understand.
     
`LEGITIMIZE_ADDRESS (X, OLDX, MODE, WIN)'     
     A C compound statement that attempts to replace X with a valid
     memory address for an operand of mode MODE.  WIN will be
     a C statement label elsewhere in the code; the macro definition
     may use
     
          GO_IF_LEGITIMATE_ADDRESS (MODE, X, WIN);
     
     to avoid further processing if the address has become legitimate.
     
     X will always be the result of a call to `break_out_memory_refs',
     and OLDX will be the operand that was given to that function to produce
     X.
     
     The code generated by this macro should not alter the substructure of X.
     If it transforms X into a more legitimate form, it should assign X
     (which will always be a C variable) a new value.
     
     It is not necessary for this macro to come up with a legitimate address.
     The compiler has standard ways of doing so in all cases.  In fact, it is
     safe for this macro to do nothing.  But often a machine-dependent strategy
     can generate better code.


File: internals  Node: Misc, Prev: Addressing Modes, Up: Machine Macros, Next: Condition Code

Miscellaneous Parameters
========================

`CASE_VECTOR_MODE'     
     An alias for a machine mode name.  This is the machine mode that elements
     of a jump-table should have.
     
`CASE_VECTOR_PC_RELATIVE'     
     Define this macro if jump-tables should contain relative addresses.
     
`IMPLICIT_FIX_EXPR'     
     An alias for a tree code that should be used by default for conversion
     of floating point values to fixed point.  Normally, `FIX_ROUND_EXPR'
     is used.
     
`EASY_DIV_EXPR'     
     An alias for a tree code that is the easiest kind of division to compile
     code for in the general case.  It may be `TRUNC_DIV_EXPR',
     `FLOOR_DIV_EXPR', `CEIL_DIV_EXPR' or `ROUND_DIV_EXPR'.
     These differ in how they round the result to an integer.
     `EASY_DIV_EXPR' is used when it is permissible to use any of those
     kinds of division and the choice should be made on the basis of efficiency.
     
`MOVE_MAX'     
     The maximum number of bytes that a single instruction can move quickly
     from memory to memory.
     
`SLOW_ZERO_EXTEND'     
     Define this macro if zero-extension (of chars or shorts to integers)
     can be done faster if the destination is a register that is known to be zero.
     
`SHIFT_COUNT_TRUNCATED'     
     Define this macro if shift instructions ignore all but the lowest few
     bits of the shift count.  It implies that a sign-extend or zero-extend
     instruction for the shift count can be omitted.
     
`TRULY_NOOP_TRUNCATON (OUTPREC, INPREC)'     
     A C expression which is nonzero if on this machine it is safe to
     "convert" an integer of INPREC bits to one of OUTPREC bits
     (where OUTPREC is smaller than INPREC) by merely operating
     on it as if it had only INPREC bits.
     
     On many machines, this expression can be 1.
     
`Pmode'     
     An alias for the machine mode for pointers.  Normally the definition can be
     
          #define Pmode SImode
     
`FUNCTION_MODE'     
     An alias for the machine mode used for memory references to functions being
     called, in `call' RTL expressions.  On most machines this should be
     `QImode'.
     
`CONST_COST (X, CODE)'     
     A part of a C `switch' statement that describes the relative costs of
     constant RTL expressions.  It must contain `case' labels for
     expression codes `const_int', `const', `symbol_ref',
     `label_ref' and `const_double'.  Each case must ultimately reach
     a `return' statement to return the relative cost of the use of that
     kind of constant value in an expression.  The cost may depend on the
     precise value of the constant, which is available for examination in
     X.
     
     CODE is the expression code---redundant, since it can be obtained with
     `GET_CODE (X)'.


File: internals  Node: Condition Code, Prev: Misc, Up: Machine Macros, Next: Assembler Format

Condition Code Information
==========================

The file `conditions.h' defines a variable `cc_status' to
describe how the condition code was computed (in case the interpretation of
the condition code depends on the instruction that it was set by).  This
variable contains the RTL expressions on which the condition code is
currently based, and several standard flags.

Sometimes additional machine-specific flags must be defined in the machine
description header file.  It can also add additional machine-specific
information by defining `CC_STATUS_MDEP'.

`CC_STATUS_MDEP'     
     A type, with which the `mdep' component of `cc_status' should
     be declared.  It defaults to `int'.
     
`CC_STATUS_MDEP_INIT'     
     A C expression for the initial value of the `mdep' field.
     It defaults to 0.
     
`NOTICE_UPDATE_CC (EXP)'     
     A C compound statement to set the components of `cc_status'
     appropriately for an insn whose body is EXP.  It is this
     macro's responsibility to recognize insns that set the condition code
     as a byproduct of other activity as well as those that explicitly
     set `(cc0)'.
     
     If there are insn that do not set the condition code but do alter other
     machine registers, this macro must check to see whether they invalidate the
     expressions that the condition code is recorded as reflecting.  For
     example, on the 68000, insns that store in address registers do not set the
     condition code, which means that usually `NOTICE_UPDATE_CC' can leave
     `cc_status' unaltered for such insns.  But suppose that the previous
     insn set the condition code based on location `a4@(102)' and the
     current insn stores a new value in `a4'.  Although the condition code
     is not changed by this, it will no longer be true that it reflects the
     contents of `a4@(102)'.  Therefore, `NOTICE_UPDATE_CC' must alter
     `cc_status' in this case to say that nothing is known about the
     condition code value.


File: internals  Node: Assembler Format, Prev: Condition Code, Up: Machine Macros

Output of Assembler Code
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`TEXT_SECTION_ASM_OP'     
     A C string constant for the assembler operation that should precede
     instructions and read-only data.  Normally `".text"' is right.
     
`DATA_SECTION_ASM_OP'     
     A C string constant for the assembler operation to identify the following
     data as writable initialized data.  Normally `".data"' is right.
     
`REGISTER_NAMES'     
     A C initializer containing the assembler's names for the machine registers,
     each one as a C string constant.  This is what translates register numbers
     in the compiler into assembler language.
     
`DBX_REGISTER_NUMBER (REGNO)'     
     A C expression that returns the DBX register number for the compiler register
     number REGNO.  In simple cases, the value of this expression may be
     REGNO itself.  But sometimes there are some registers that the compiler
     knows about and DBX does not, or vice versa.  In such cases, some register
     may need to have one number in the compiler and another for DBX.
     
`ASM_OUTPUT_DOUBLE (FILE, VALUE)'     
     A C statement to output to the stdio stream FILE an assembler
     instruction to assemble a `double' constant whose value is
     VALUE.  VALUE will be a C expression of type `double'.
     
`ASM_OUTPUT_FLOAT (FILE, VALUE)'     
     A C statement to output to the stdio stream FILE an assembler
     instruction to assemble a `float' constant whose value is VALUE.
     VALUE will be a C expression of type `float'.
     
`ASM_OUTPUT_SKIP (FILE, NBYTES)'     
     A C statement to output to the stdio stream FILE an assembler
     instruction to advance the location counter by NBYTES bytes.
     NBYTES will be a C expression of type `int'.
     
`ASM_OUTPUT_ALIGN (FILE, POWER)'     
     A C statement to output to the stdio stream FILE an assembler
     instruction to advance the location counter to a multiple of 2 to the
     POWER bytes.  POWER will be a C expression of type `int'.
     
`ASM_INT_OP'     
     A C string constant for the assembler operation that assembles constants of
     C type `int'.  A space must follow the operation name.  Normally
     `".long "'.
     
`ASM_SHORT_OP'     
`ASM_CHAR_OP'     
     Likewise, for C types `short' and `char'.  Normally `".word "'
     and `".byte "'.
     
`TARGET_BELL'     
     A C constant expression for the integer value for escape sequence `\a'.
     
`TARGET_BS'     
`TARGET_TAB'     
`TARGET_NEWLINE'     
     C constant expressions for the integer values for escape sequences
     `\b', `\t' and `\n'.
     
`TARGET_VT'     
`TARGET_FF'     
`TARGET_CR'     
     C constant expressions for the integer values for escape sequences
     `\v', `\f' and `\r'.
     
`PRINT_OPERAND (FILE, X)'     
     A C compound statement to output to stdio stream FILE
     the assembler syntax for an instruction operand X.
     X is an RTL expression.
     
     If X is a register, this macro should print the register's name.  The
     names can be found in an array `reg_names' whose type is `char
     *[]'.  `reg_names' is initialized from `REGISTER_NAMES'.
     
`PRINT_OPERAND_ADDRESS (FILE, X)'     
     A C compound statement to output to stdio stream FILE the assembler
     syntax for an instruction operand that is a memory reference whose address
     is X.  X is an RTL expression.