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Re: mov{s,z}{b,w,l} suffix guessing
- From: "H.J. Lu" <hjl dot tools at gmail dot com>
- To: Jan Beulich <JBeulich at suse dot com>
- Cc: Binutils <binutils at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2016 07:44:22 -0700
- Subject: Re: mov{s,z}{b,w,l} suffix guessing
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On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 7:00 AM, Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com> wrote:
> H.J.,
>
> i386-opc.tbl has "interesting" comments around these, and the
> assembler as a result provides inconsistent behavior: For one
> because of the recognition of the suffix-less movzb (as the
> only exception). And of course with both instruction groups
> therefore being different from all other instructions with
> register operands. So the question is: Are these inconsistencies
> really intended, or wouldn't it be better to enhance things so
> that at least the final suffix bytes on these two groups won't
> be required anymore? (Clearly when both operands are
> registers, one could even aim at making the second from last
> suffix byte optional too.)
>
> And if the current (sorry) state is intentional, shouldn't use of
> suffix-less movzb at least get warned about, to pave a road
> towards removing that exception?
Please open a bug with all these issues you found. We should
investigate them. If changing them doesn't introduce any test
failures and gcc/glibc/kernel have no issues, we should fix it.
Thanks.
--
H.J.