Development

Meeting Notes

• Meeting Notes May 16, 2007

M5 Design Issues

• Alpha Dependencies
• Branch delay slots
• Full system code locations
• Heterogeneous System Support
• ISA-Specific Compilation
• New Memory Model
• Register windows
• SPARC Architecture Nasties
• x86 decoder
• microcode assembler
• x86 microcode system
• Bad names

Random Bits

• Things that aren't really documented anywhere
• Summer student tasks

Programming Bugs

• Ref counted pointers and STL