Hi Jan,
Thanks for pointing that out.

Hi Kiva,
Maybe you can send a better patch for this issue if you are interested,
including what Jan suggested.  Thanks :-)

Nelson

On Tue, Aug 29, 2023 at 4:52 PM Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com> wrote:

> On 29.08.2023 09:59, Nelson Chu wrote:
> > Is the following expected?
>
> I think so, but Kiva - please confirm.
>
> >  Seems "vd is any" also has the same issue.
>
> Right, that's what ...
>
> >> I think this wants fixing alike in binutils: From looking at
> >> vector_macro(),
> >> it appears that emitting the masked form is merely an accident resulting
> >> from the inverted encoding of "masking". In particular, if masking was
> >> indeed meant, I expect code there would be
> >>
> >>                   if (vd == vm)
> >>                     {
> >>                       macro_build (NULL, "vmslt.vx", "Vd,Vt,sVm", vtemp,
> >> vs2, vs1, vm);
> >>                       macro_build (NULL, "vmandnot.mm", "Vd,Vt,Vs", vd,
> >> vm, vtemp);
> >>                     }
> >>                   else
> >>                     ...
> >>
> >> much like it is a few lines down from there. (Apparently the "else" path
> >> omitted above is similarly affected.)
>
> ... I was referring to with the parenthesized sentence.
>
> Jan
>