Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v1 7/9] target-arm: Add the ARMInsnSyndrome type

[Peter Maydell]

On 12 February 2016 at 14:34, Edgar E. Iglesias
<address@hidden> wrote:
> From: "Edgar E. Iglesias" <address@hidden>
>
> Add the ARMInsnSyndrome type including helper functions to
> encode and decode it into an u32. This is in preparation for
> Instruction Syndrome generation for Data Aborts.
>
> No functional change.

I find this patch confusing -- syndromes are already 32 bits,
so why is the encoding of the syndrome information into 32 bits
not just the syndrome register format ?

thanks
-- PMM