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Re: RFC: [PATCH] X86: Add pseudo prefixes to control encoding


On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 12:42 PM, Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> wrote:
> On 11/04/2016 07:24 PM, H.J. Lu wrote:
>>
>> Many x86 instructions have more than one encodings.  Assembler picks
>> the default one, usually the shortest one.  Although the ".s", ".d8"
>> and ".d32" suffixes can be used to swap register operands or specify
>> displacement size, they aren't very flexible.  This patch adds pseudo
>> prefixes, {xxx}, to control instruction encoding.  The available
>> pseudo prefixes are {disp8}, {disp32}, {swap}, {vex2}, {vex3} and
>> {evex}.  Pseudo prefixes are preferred over the ".s", ".d8" and ".d32"
>> suffixes, which are deprecated.
>
>
> For certain ways of writing jump tables, instruction length specifications
> would be quite useful.  The assembler would be free to choose any encoding,
> as long as it has the required instruction length.
>
> Here's a bug which  was caused by optimizing
>
>   mov 0(%esi,%ecx,4),%edx   to   mov (%esi,%ecx,4),%edx

This is done on purpose since "0" can be encoded as 0, 8 or 32-bit.
Now you can use {disp8}" or "{disp32}" to prefer either 8-bit or 32-bit.

> in GAS:
>
> <https://lists.debian.org/debian-ocaml-maint/2005/11/msg00223.html>
>
> Florian
>



-- 
H.J.


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