[PTLsim-devel] Branch and store register files

Mon Mar 5 12:23:03 EST 2007

Hi everyone,

Could somebody tell me what the point of the branch and store register 
files is? When I'm running my simulations, not a single instruction gets 
their source operands from them. Could somebody tell me why they are 
there and what sort of data it is that they contain since I can't quite 
see any reason to have them if no instruction is reading them. I'm using 
the latest PTLsim and running a billion instructions from each benchmark 
so I'm fairly confident with the results I'm getting!

Thanks
Tim