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+/*
+ * Copyright(c) 2019-2020 Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
+ *
+ * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+ * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
+ * (at your option) any later version.
+ *
+ * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+ * GNU General Public License for more details.
+ *
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+ * along with this program; if not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+ */
+
+/*
+ * This program generates the semantics file that is processed by
+ * the do_qemu.py script. We use the C preporcessor to manipulate the
+ * files imported from the Hexagon architecture library.
+ */
+
+#include <stdio.h>
+#define STRINGIZE(X) #X
+
+int main(int argc, char *argv[])
+{
+ FILE *outfile;
+
+ if (argc != 2) {
+ fprintf(stderr, "Usage: gen_semantics ouptputfile\n");
+ return 1;
+ }
+ outfile = fopen(argv[1], "w");
+ if (outfile == NULL) {
+ fprintf(stderr, "Cannot open %s for writing\n", argv[1]);
+ return 1;
+ }
+
+/*
+ * Process the instruction definitions
+ * Scalar core instructions have the following form
+ * Q6INSN(A2_add,"Rd32=add(Rs32,Rt32)",ATTRIBS(),
+ * "Add 32-bit registers",
+ * { RdV=RsV+RtV;})
+ */
+#define Q6INSN(TAG, BEH, ATTRIBS, DESCR, SEM) \
+ do { \
+ fprintf(outfile, "SEMANTICS( \\\n" \
+ " \"%s\", \\\n" \
+ " %s, \\\n" \
+ " \"\"\"%s\"\"\" \\\n" \
+ ")\n", \
+ #TAG, STRINGIZE(BEH), STRINGIZE(SEM)); \
+ fprintf(outfile, "ATTRIBUTES( \\\n" \
+ " \"%s\", \\\n" \
+ " \"%s\" \\\n" \
+ ")\n", \
+ #TAG, STRINGIZE(ATTRIBS)); \
+ } while (0);
+#include "imported/allidefs.def"
+#undef Q6INSN
+
+/*
+ * Process the macro definitions
+ * Macros definitions have the following form
+ * DEF_MACRO(
+ * fLSBNEW0,
+ * predlog_read(thread,0),
+ * ()
+ * )
+ * The important part here is the attributes. Whenever an instruction
+ * invokes a macro, we add the macro's attributes to the instruction.
+ */
+#define DEF_MACRO(MNAME, BEH, ATTRS) \
+ fprintf(outfile, "MACROATTRIB( \\\n" \
+ " \"%s\", \\\n" \
+ " \"\"\"%s\"\"\", \\\n" \
+ " \"%s\" \\\n" \
+ ")\n", \
+ #MNAME, STRINGIZE(BEH), STRINGIZE(ATTRS));
+#include "imported/macros.def"
+#undef DEF_MACRO
+
+ fclose(outfile);
+ return 0;
+}