From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 15866 invoked by alias); 12 Apr 2005 20:32:45 -0000 Mailing-List: contact binutils-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: binutils-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 15749 invoked from network); 12 Apr 2005 20:32:37 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO maxipes.logix.cz) (217.11.251.249) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 12 Apr 2005 20:32:37 -0000 Received: from [192.168.0.137] (visp230-172.visp.co.nz [210.54.172.230]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by maxipes.logix.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52C811F99D; Tue, 12 Apr 2005 20:32:33 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <425C305A.6000504@logix.cz> Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 20:32:00 -0000 From: Michal Ludvig User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20041206) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mark Kettenis Cc: binutils@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [RFC/RFA] Proper mnemonics for VIA PadLock (i386) instructions References: <200504121915.j3CJFO0P017574@elgar.sibelius.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <200504121915.j3CJFO0P017574@elgar.sibelius.xs4all.nl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2005-04/txt/msg00295.txt.bz2 Mark Kettenis wrote: > This one is a bit nasty. The OpenBSD in-tree gas has had support for > the VIA PadLock instructions for a while. Unfortunately that support > was never submitted for inclusion into the FSF tree. A little over a > year ago Michal Ludvig committed support for these instructions. > Unfortunately he used mnemonics that differ from the instruction names > as used in the VIA documentation; the VIA names include a hyphen that > Michal left out. I presume Michal did this because gas doesn't accept > hyphens in mnemonics. That can be fixed though. This patch does > that, and adds back the missing hyphen. It also adds a missing > instruction that's going to be in the VIA cpu. > > This patch keeps hyphen-less aliases for the instructions. The gas > testsuite still passes with this patch applied. As long as the names without hyphen still exist I don't object. Coincidently in Linux Journal of May 05 there is an article about VIA PadLock that uses the current short names (obviously). However, what is the point of having two names for one instruction? Why not to support only the one without hyphen? Michal Ludvig -- * Personal homepage: http://www.logix.cz/michal