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Re: [PATCH] Add x86 SSE5 instructions to the GNU binary utilities


On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 01:54:52PM -0400, Michael Meissner wrote:
> I needed 3 extra opcode_modifier bits to implement SSE5, and only two bits are
> available without going to long long.

Hmm, I see only the following combinations of your 3 new bits are
actually used:

 0
 Drex
 Drex|Drexv
 Drexc

So, you could encode in 2 bits..

-- 
Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM


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