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Re: [PATCH] x86: allow suffix-less sign-extending movsb, movsw, and movsl
- 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: Fri, 1 Jul 2016 06:58:47 -0700
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: allow suffix-less sign-extending movsb, movsw, and movsl
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On Fri, Jul 1, 2016 at 6:29 AM, Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com> wrote:
>>>> On 01.07.16 at 14:38, <hjl.tools@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Jul 1, 2016 at 2:36 AM, Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com> wrote:
>>> ... just like has been made the case recently for movzb and movzw.
>>>
>>> Note that this exposed a bug in check_qword_reg(): A missing 'r' (or
>>> wrong 'e') register prefix needs to be complained about if the template
>>> allows for a 64-bit register, not a 32-bit one. I assume this was a
>>> copy-and-paste type of mistake (from check_long_reg()).
>>>
>>
>> We don't support
>>
>> movsl %eax,%rax
>> movsl (%rax),%rax
>>
>> today.
>
> Nor do we support (prior to this patch) the respective movsb and
> movsw. Adding support for them (and then consistently, i.e.
> including movsl) is the purpose of this patch.
>
>> Remind me why we changed to support
>>
>> movzl %eax,%rax
>> movzl (%rax),%rax
>>
>> There is no code outer there which uses this mnemonic. Maybe it
>> was a mistake to allow it.
>
> Where did you see this getting added?
My mistake. We shouldn't make "movsX" suffix-less since
there are "movsX".
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H.J.