On Tue, 2012-02-28 at 09:46 +0000, Dave Martin wrote:

On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 07:48:45PM +0000, Ian Campbell wrote:

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Given that Stefano is proposing to make the ISS a (per-hypervisor)
constant we could consider just defining the Thumb and non-Thumb
constants instead of doing all the construction with the __HVC_IMM stuff
-- that would remove a big bit of the macroization.

It's not quite as simple as that -- emitting instructions using data
directives is not endianness safe, and even in the cases where .long gives
the right result for ARM, it gives the wrong result for 32-bit Thumb
instructions if the opcode is given in human-readable order.

Urk, yes,..

I was trying to solve the same problem for the kvm guys with some global
macros -- I'm aiming to get a patch posted soon, so I'll make sure
you're on CC.

Awesome, thanks!

Ian.