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From: Dmitry Selyutin <ghostmansd@gmail.com>
To: Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com>
Cc: binutils@sourceware.org, gdb-patches@sourceware.org,
	 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl@lkcl.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] ppc: extend opindex to 16 bits
Date: Thu, 12 May 2022 10:41:24 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMqzjevvtL+8XKjivH6omosqy1Ro2nN-=h_3-K6huCNBFf1Ggw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YnxRQvTqbbnLC1JA@squeak.grove.modra.org>

On Thu, May 12, 2022 at 3:13 AM Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com> wrote:
> Huh?  What makes you say that?

That was my first impression, since the only negative value I found
was -1, and I initially thought that was just a placeholder value.
Thank you for noticing that! I changed the wording so that we only
stress that this is signed and (for now?) 16-bit.

> Also, your patch misses changing the following.  The existing 0xff
> mask was from a time when fx_pcrel_adjust was a signed char.
>
>       int opindex = fixP->fx_pcrel_adjust & 0xff;
>
> This could be any of
>       int opindex = fixP->fx_pcrel_adjust & 0xffff;
>       int opindex = (uint16_t) fixP->fx_pcrel_adjust;
>       uint16_t opindex = fixP->fx_pcrel_adjust;
> Which you choose is a matter of style.

Thank you! Since PPC code now has the typedef, I updated the patch to
use `(ppc_opindex_t)fixP->fx_pcrel_adjust` form.

      reply	other threads:[~2022-05-12  7:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-05-11 17:59 Dmitry Selyutin
2022-05-12  0:13 ` Alan Modra
2022-05-12  7:41   ` Dmitry Selyutin [this message]

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