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aarch64_opcode_table changes for BZ 19722

Szabolcs Nagy szabolcs.nagy@arm.com
Fri Apr 29 15:03:00 GMT 2016 
On 29/04/16 12:28, Nick Clifton wrote:
>> with the new verifier field some
>>
>>  {a,b,c,d},
>>
>> table entries were changed to
>>
>>  {a,b,c,d,NULL},
>>
>> others to
>>
>>  c_INS(a,b,d),
>>
>> the goal of those c_INS macros is not clear to me,
>> is it just to align the opcode table columns?
> 
> No - it was to make future changes to the table easier to do and
> to make the verifier functions stand out.
> 

the opcodes/aarch64-gen tool now fails to build
because verify_ldpsw is undefined.

i guess aarch64-opc.o can be linked into the tool,
although it's a bit ugly since it's not used, just
referenced from the opcode table initializer..
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