[fpc-devel] Error building xtensa rtl

[Florian Klämpfl]

Am 30.03.20 um 22:07 schrieb Christo Crause via fpc-devel:
> 
> On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 11:00 PM Florian Klämpfl <florian at freepascal.org 
> <mailto:florian at freepascal.org>> wrote:
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>     Am 29.03.20 um 22:46 schrieb Christo Crause via fpc-devel:
>      > It seems that a different instruction sequence should be used for
>     sign
>      > extension for the lx106 subarch.
> 
>     Ok, I see. Let me first integrate everything done so far in trunk, then
>     we can continue with the details :)
> 
> 
> I've noticed GCC uses the SLLI + SRAI instructions to perform sign 
> extension on ESP8266.
> 
> Since different CPUs can support different subsets of the Xtensa 
> instructions do you think a finalizecode type function can be used as a 
> post code generation step to map unsupported instructions to alternative 
> sequences?

In this case just cgcpu can be adapted to generate the right code. This 
results normally in better code.