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Re: [PATCH] x86: adjust immediate instruction operands handling


On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 08:45:59AM -0600, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >>> "H. J. Lu" <hjl@lucon.org> 18.07.05 16:56:16 >>>
> >On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 08:06:19AM -0600, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >> Until now, it was possible to use, for example (Intel Syntax),
> >> 
> >> 	shl	<byte-reg>, <imm8>
> >> 
> >> where <imm8> was either a forward reference or even an external
> >> absolute.
> >> However, it wasn't possible to do the same with 16-, 32-, or 64-bit
> >> registers, because the immediate's size and the register and/or
> suffix
> >> didn't match in size. This patch makes this consistent so that all
> >> forms
> >> get accepted.
> >
> >A testcase?
> 
> Included this time.
> 
> Built and tested on i386-pc-linux-gnu and x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.
> 
> Jan
> 
> gas/
> 2005-07-26  Jan Beulich  <jbeulich@novell.com>
> 
> 	* config/tc-i386.c (optimize_imm): Calculate candidate
> immediates
> 	mask from guessed suffix, but mask out other immediate types
> only
> 	if at least on candidate is valid for the insn.
> 
> gas/testsuite/
> 2005-07-26  Jan Beulich  <jbeulich@novell.com>
> 
> 	* gas/i386/immed32.[sd]: New.
> 	* gas/i386/immed64.[sd]: New.
> 	* gas/i386/i386.exp: Run new tests.
> 

OK. Thanks.


H.J.


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