Re: LuaJIT - Trace aborted again

[Benjamin Segovia <segovia.benjamin@...>]

Actually, I naturally tried this one before the while true do {...} end
Same result unfortunately :-)
Ben


On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 7:21 AM, David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> wrote:
> Benjamin Segovia <segovia.benjamin@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Hello all,
>> still in the context of asm-from-one-machine to lua translation, I am
>> facing some difficulties.
>> For various reasons (mostly because the machine I am simulating is a
>> SIMD vector machine), I need to handle forward jumps with the idiom:
>>
>> while true do
>> {... a lot of compute ...}
>> if some_condition_on_the_lane_of_the_simd_vector then break end
>> {... a lot of compute ...}
>> break -- this one is to exit anyway
>> end
>>
>> So, basic blocks are handled with these idioms.
>
> That's not a nice idiom.  Perhaps
>
> repeat
> ...
> until false
>
> is better recognizable to luajit?  That way the fall-through exit is
> more conspicuous.  And since it is more idiomatic, chances are better
> that Mike caters for this...
>
> --
> David Kastrup
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