On Fri, 4 Aug 2006, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> Indeed. However, I do not feel that the impact will be unbearably large.
> So far, I have found only two cases where the documentation documents
> different behaviour for a given opcode on ColdFire vs 68k:
>
> * Moving data from FPU registers to memory with FMOVEM will overwrite 10
> bytes per register on classic 68k, but only 8 per register on
> ColdFire, due to the differences in FPU register length. This is a
> problem if you try to access the data in memory after pulling it out
> with FMOVEM, but it is not if you use it to store the state of your
> registers at the beginning of a function, so that you can restore the
> state at the end of the same. I presume that that's what FMOVEM was
> intended for anyway, so I do not consider this to be much of a
> problem.
But I guess this is a problem if you do
movem.l d0-d1,-(a7)
fmovem fp0-fp1,-(a7)
movem.l d2-d3,-(a7)
and want to access the saved d0 and d1 later, relative to a7, as they will be
at different offsets.
> * Using address register indirect with predecrement or postincrement mode
> on the stack pointer (A7) in byte context will increment resp.
> decrement the stack pointer with 2 bytes on classic 68k, but with 1
> byte on the ColdFire. Both still need to be aligned on two bytes,
> however. As a result, this addressing mode should be avoided; but I do
> not think that it is used very often.
Hmm... So what happens if you push 1 byte on the stack, and an interrupt comes
in?
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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