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Re: [PATCH] x86: remove stray instruction attributes
- 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: Thu, 30 Jun 2016 05:29:13 -0700
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: remove stray instruction attributes
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On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 4:41 AM, Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com> wrote:
>>>> On 30.06.16 at 13:31, <hjl.tools@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 3:59 AM, Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com> wrote:
>>>>>> On 30.06.16 at 12:23, <JBeulich@suse.com> wrote:
>>>> - with Cpu64 Disp16 makes no sense for memory operands
>>>> - with CpuNo64 Disp32S makes no sense
>>>> - non-64-bit lgdt doesn't allow 10-byte operands
>>>
>>> Another thing I've been thinking of, which I believe would greatly
>>> improve readability of opcodes/i386-opc.tbl, is to remove the
>>> various No_*Suf specifications when an instruction doesn't allow
>>> any suffix: Since no instruction will possibly allow for every one of
>>> them, i386-gen could easily be made set all 6 bits when none of
>>> them got set by parsing of the input. Thoughts?
>>
>> I don't mind replacing all those No_*Suf with something close
>> to what spec says.
>
> I don't understand: I was proposing to remove them where they're
> pointless (and can be inferred); I don't see how what the spec says
> comes into the picture here (namely I didn't mean to effect any
> behavioral change).
No_*Suf is something we made up. It isn't clear which instructions
should have it from spec. Can we replace it with something from spec?
--
H.J.