6502/vasm/doc/cpu_ppc.texi

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This chapter documents the Backend for the PowerPC microprocessor family.
@section Legal
This module is written in 2002-2016 by Frank Wille and
is covered by the vasm copyright without modifications.
@section Additional options for this module
This module provides the following additional options:
@table @option
@item -big
Select big-endian mode.
@item -little
Select little-endian mode.
@item -many
Allow both, 32- and 64-bit instructions.
@item -mavec, -maltivec
Generate code for the Altivec unit.
@item -mcom
Allow only common PPC instructions.
@item -m601
Generate code for the PPC 601.
@item -mppc32, -mppc, -m603, -m604
Generate code for the 32-bit PowerPC 6xx family.
@item -mppc64, -m620
Generate code for the 64-bit PowerPC 600 family.
@item -m7400, -m7410, -m7455
Generate code for the 32-bit PowerPC 74xx (G4) family.
@item -m7450
Generate code for the 32-bit PowerPC 7450.
@item -m403, -m405
Generate code for the IBM/AMCC 32-bit embedded 40x family.
@item -m440, -m460
Generate code for the AMCC 32-bit embedded 440/460 family.
@item -m821, -m850, -m860
Generate code for the 32-bit MPC8xx PowerQUICC I family.
@item -mbooke
Generate code for the 32-bit Book-E architecture.
@item -me300
Generate code for the 32-bit e300 core (MPC51xx, MPC52xx, MPC83xx).
@item -me500
Generate code for the 32-bit e500 core (MPC85xx), including SPE,
EFS and PMR.
@item -mpwr
Generate code for the POWER family.
@item -mpwrx, -mpwr2
Generate code for the POWER2 family.
@item -no-regnames
Don't predefine any register-name symbols.
@item -opt-branch
Enables translation of 16-bit branches into
"B<!cc> $+8 ; B label" sequences when destination is out of range.
@item -sd2reg=<n>
Sets the 2nd small data base register to @code{Rn}.
@item -sdreg=<n>
Sets small data base register to @code{Rn}.
@end table
The default setting is to generate code for a 32-bit PPC G2, G3, G4 CPU
with Altivec support.
@section General
This backend accepts PowerPC instructions as described in the
instruction set manuals from IBM, Motorola, Freescale and AMCC.
The full instruction set of the following families is supported:
POWER, POWER2, 40x, 44x, 46x, 60x, 620, 750, 74xx, 860, Book-E,
e300 and e500.
The target address type is 32 or 64 bits, depending on the selected
CPU model.
Default alignment for sections and instructions is 4 bytes. Data is
aligned to its natural alignment by default.
@section Extensions
This backend provides the following specific extensions:
@itemize @minus
@item When not disabled by the option @code{-no-regnames}, the registers r0 - r31,
f0 - f31, v0 - v31, cr0 - cr7, vrsave, sp, rtoc, fp, fpscr, xer, lr, ctr,
and the symbols lt, gt, so and un will be predefined on startup and may
be referenced by the program.
@end itemize
This backend extends the selected syntax module by the following
directives:
@table @code
@item .sdreg <n>
Sets the small data base register to @code{Rn}.
@item .sd2reg <n>
Sets the 2nd small data base register to @code{Rn}.
@end table
@section Optimizations
This backend performs the following optimizations:
@itemize @minus
@item 16-bit branches, where the destination is out of range, are translated
into @code{B<!cc> $+8} and a 26-bit unconditional branch.
@end itemize
@section Known Problems
Some known problems of this module at the moment:
@itemize @minus
@item No real differentiation between 403, 750, 860 instructions
at the moment.
@item There may still be some unsupported PPC models.
@end itemize
@section Error Messages
This module has the following error messages:
@itemize @minus
@item 2002: instruction not supported on selected architecture
@item 2003: constant integer expression required
@item 2004: trailing garbage in operand
@item 2005: illegal operand type
@item 2006: missing closing parenthesis in load/store addressing mode
@item 2007: relocation does not allow hi/lo modifier
@item 2008: multiple relocation attributes
@item 2009: multiple hi/lo modifiers
@item 2010: data size %d not supported
@item 2011: data has illegal type
@item 2012: relocation attribute not supported by operand
@item 2013: operand out of range: %ld (allowed: %ld to %ld)
@item 2014: not a valid register (0-31)
@item 2015: missing base register in load/store addressing mode
@item 2016: missing mandatory operand
@item 2017: ignoring fake operand
@end itemize