[Oberon] Load/Store instruction and Status register
Chris Burrows
chris at cfbsoftware.com
Fri May 11 16:08:19 CEST 2018
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Oberon [mailto:oberon-bounces at lists.inf.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of
> Srinivas Nayak
> Sent: Friday, 11 May 2018 11:04 PM
> To: ETH Oberon and related systems
> Subject: [Oberon] Load/Store instruction and Status register
>
>
> To my understanding, here our interest is to do the NIL check for the
> pointer/address being dereferenced.
> Here pointer/address is given by x.r + x.a.
> We need to check if this is 0 or not.
>
> So here, will the status register(N,Z,C,V) gets set by i. x.r + x.a
> address calculation operation or ii. for the received value in x.r?
>
So far x.r only contains the computed address. If it is zero then Z will be
set and the trap will be executed.
> If I understood this correctly, it means status register(N,Z,C,V)
> gets set for the received value in x.r.
> That means we didn't check the address to be 0, but rather we checked
> if the value received is 0.
>
You need another load instruction to receive the value that is stored at
that address. E.g. if p is a local pointer variable the assignment statement
p.i := 0
will generate the following code:
LDW r0, sp, 4
BL,EQ r12 trap #4, pos: 123
MOV r1, r0, 0
STW r1, r0, 0
>
> 2. In Put3(BLR, EQ, ORS.Pos()*100H + 4*10H + MT) instruction, we
> embedded source code position and trap number(4) in to the branch
> instruction itself.
> Where and When this instruction will be decomposed to get position
> information and trap number?
>
It is decomposed and displayed to the user in System.Trap
Regards,
Chris Burrows
CFB Software
http://www.astrobe.com/RISC5
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