From: Alan Modra <amodra@bigpond.net.au>
To: Peter Bergner <bergner@vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: "binutils@sourceware.org" <binutils@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: Handle extrdi and large register rotate values
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2009 09:44:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090829020655.GL19523@bubble.grove.modra.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1251494962.5257.77.camel@otta>
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 04:29:22PM -0500, Peter Bergner wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-08-28 at 10:09 +0930, Alan Modra wrote:
> > {"extrdi", 4, PPC64, "rldicl %0,%1,((%2)+(%3))&((%2)+(%3)<>64),64-(%2)"},
>
> This wouldn't allow something like:
>
> extrdi 10,24,6,60 (ie, want [60,61,62,63,0,1] bits)
>
> which mine would correctly translate to:
>
> rldicl 10,24,2,58
>
> Do we even want to support extrdi's like that or not? If not, I'll whip
> up a patch using your patch idea and add some testcases.
I'd rather not support wrap around fields in the extended mnemonics.
On 64-bit hardware the 32-bit insns have some pitfalls for novice
programmers.
--
Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-29 2:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-28 0:02 Peter Bergner
2009-08-28 3:14 ` Alan Modra
2009-08-28 3:32 ` Alan Modra
2009-08-28 21:58 ` Peter Bergner
2009-08-29 9:44 ` Alan Modra [this message]
2009-09-08 9:03 ` Alan Modra
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