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From: Ian Lance Taylor <ian@airs.com>
To: "Vladimir Stepanenko" <vlads@juniper.net>
Cc: <gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: mips64-elf-as: missing 'li' macro
Date: Sat, 08 Oct 2005 05:06:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3irw81ttc.fsf@gossamer.airs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <F07F17B61B7FF545BC7D7E4BFBE15D2A019FD8F8@hadron.jnpr.net>

"Vladimir Stepanenko" <vlads@juniper.net> writes:

> Latest version of mips64-elf-as produces an error message when
> assembling
> li	$1, 0xc000000000000000
> 
> start.S:154: Error: Number (0xc000000000000000) larger than 32 bits
> 
> Previously (in mips64vr5xxx-elf-as version 2.9-gnupro-99r1) this macro
> was expanded as
> lui	$1, 0xc000
> dsll32	$1, $1, 0x10
> 
> Does any particular mips64 architecture support this macro extension or
> 64-bit immediates are not allowed at all?

This question is about the assembler, and would be better directed to
binutils@sourceware.org.  See http://sourceware.org/binutils/.

I believe the answer is to use 'dli' if you want to load a 64-bit
constant.  Note that your 2.9-gnupro-99r1 toolchain is six years old.

Ian

      reply	other threads:[~2005-10-08  5:06 UTC|newest]

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2005-10-08  4:46 Vladimir Stepanenko
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