Re: Bye Bye PPC_OPCODE_VSX3

[Alan Modra <amodra at gmail dot com>]

On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 06:34:01PM -0500, Peter Bergner wrote:
> On 4/10/17 5:16 PM, Alan Modra wrote:
> > This bit is also useless as it can be replaced with PPC_OPCODE_POWER9.
> > Defining the VSX2 and VSX3 selection based on cpu bits also lets the
> > assembler/disassembler distinguish between the power7 VSX opcodes and
> > the power8 ones.  Note that this change means -mvsx now reverts back
> > to just adding the power7 VSX insns.
> 
> I'm fine...err...more than fine with the whole series. :-)  But didn't:
> 
>   https://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2017-03/msg00122.html
> 
> already revert -mvsx to only enable the power7 vsx instructions or
> did I miss something?

No, that just removed power9 VSX insns from -mvsx.  After your 2017-03
patch, ppc-opc.c still had

#define PPCVSX PPC_OPCODE_VSX
#define PPCVSX2 PPC_OPCODE_VSX

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Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM