[fpc-devel] arm embedded cortexM3 unrecognized opcode

[Hans-Peter Diettrich]

Geoffrey Barton schrieb:

> It now recognises the mnemonic 'cpsie' but not the following 'i'.
> 
> The 'msr' instruction should also allow the interrupts to be 
> enabled/disabled as
> 
> msr primask,r0
> 
> but msr gives an unknown identifier error for 'primask' and all the 
> other 'special' register names ('apsr' etc.) Perhaps they have been 
> given different names, but I cannot find them listed anywhere in the FPC 
> source.

I don't know details about this CPU, but possibly priviledged operations 
(and registers) are not part of the CPU definition, because these cannot 
be used in ordinary applications.

It may be a good idea to create multiple code generators, for machines 
that can be used either for non-priviledged (application) or privileged 
(system, driver...) coding. At least a priviledge level should be passed 
to the compiler and assembler, so that it can flag the need for 
privileged instructions in the given source code.

Dodi