From: Richard Henderson <rth@cygnus.com>
To: Cort Dougan <cort@attis.cs.nmt.edu>
Cc: gas2@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: Re: ppc instructions in gas
Date: Thu, 06 May 1999 17:49:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <19990506174929.A13363@cygnus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <19990506180806.A5113@attis.cs.nmt.edu>
On Thu, May 06, 1999 at 06:08:06PM -0600, Cort Dougan wrote:
> As it is, gcc (32-bit mode) generates
> code that will do a lis of 0xffff (the unsigned value) which shouldn't work
> according to the manual. When I do this for 64-bit with egcs it will not
> assemble.
We should fix gcc then. That should not be hard at all.
> Right, it should complain for both 32 and 64 bit. It only complains for
> 64-bit now, though. So I don't know if I should fix our asm (probably not,
> even though according to the manual it's incorrect but gcc generates the
> same code).
>
> If I can change those operands to be unsigned it will still load a 16 bit
> value correctly but will allow things to work according to the manual and
> the egcs generated code.
>
> Can we make these critters unsigned? I don't know of any code that
> requires they be signed anywhere.
I'm not real comfortable just changing it. Who knows what sort
of code is out there. I wouldn't be adverse to reducing the
error to a warning in 32-bit mode though.
r~
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1999-05-06 15:07 ` Richard Henderson
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1999-05-06 15:35 ` Richard Henderson
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1999-05-06 16:56 ` Richard Henderson
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1999-05-06 17:49 ` Richard Henderson [this message]
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1999-05-06 18:43 ` Richard Henderson
1999-05-06 20:06 ` Ian Lance Taylor
1999-05-06 20:13 ` Richard Henderson
1999-05-06 20:43 ` Ian Lance Taylor
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