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From: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
To: Harald van Dijk via Gcc-help <gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org>
Cc: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>,
	 Harald van Dijk <harald@gigawatt.nl>
Subject: Re: Inline assembly and value extensions
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 2020 15:29:18 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ft6sx0lt.fsf@oldenburg2.str.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f1ef59f7-8295-2c27-eb69-42637a135772@gigawatt.nl> (Harald van Dijk via Gcc-help's message of "Mon, 5 Oct 2020 14:26:19 +0100")

* Harald van Dijk via Gcc-help:

> In the x32 ABI, pointers do not have a single mode. They are SImode,
> except when passed as parameters or returned, in which case they are 
> DImode (see the ix86_promote_function_mode function I mentioned). This
> is really the source of the problems.

I think that GCC cannot optimize away unecessary sign and zero
extensions is also a contributing factor, no?

Thanks,
Florian
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  reply	other threads:[~2020-10-05 13:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-08-22 15:30 Harald van Dijk
2020-10-03 20:42 ` Harald van Dijk
2020-10-05 12:53   ` Segher Boessenkool
2020-10-05 13:26     ` Harald van Dijk
2020-10-05 13:29       ` Florian Weimer [this message]
2020-10-05 13:39         ` Harald van Dijk

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