Understanding Sail: A Language for Processor ISA Semantics
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Summary
Sail is a language designed for expressing the instruction-set architecture (ISA) semantics of processors, providing a more precise and complete description of sequential code behavior compared to traditional vendor architecture specifications.
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· 3 pulledVendor architecture specification documents typically describe the sequential behaviour of their ISA with a combination of prose, tables, and pseudocode for each instruction.
For x86, the Intel pseudocode is just suggestive, with embedded prose, while the AMD descriptions...
Sail is a language for expressing the instruction-set architecture (ISA) semantics of processors.
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