Re: [Bpf] Review of draft-thaler-bpf-isa-01

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On Tue, Jul 25, 2023 at 7:03 AM Dave Thaler <dthaler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Thanks,
> Dave
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> > From: Bpf <bpf-bounces@xxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Watson Ladd
> > Sent: Monday, July 24, 2023 10:05 PM
> > To: bpf@xxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [Bpf] Review of draft-thaler-bpf-isa-01
> >
> > Dear BPF wg,
> >
> > I took a look at the draft and think it has some issues, unsurprisingly at this stage. One is
> > the specification seems to use an underspecified C pseudo code for operations vs
> > defining them mathematically.

Hi Watson,

This is not "underspecified C" pseudo code.
This is assembly syntax parsed and emitted by GCC, LLVM, gas, Linux Kernel, etc.

> > The good news is I think this is very fixable although tedious.
> >
> > The other thornier issues are memory model etc. But the overall structure seems good
> > and the document overall makes sense.

What do you mean by "memory model" ?
Do you see a reference to it ? Please be specific.





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