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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/8] i386: bitops: Rectify bogus "Ir" constraints
Hi Andi,


On Mon, 23 Jul 2007, Andi Kleen wrote:

> On Monday 23 July 2007 18:05:38 Satyam Sharma wrote:
> > From: Satyam Sharma <ssatyam@cse.iitk.ac.in>
> >
> > [2/8] i386: bitops: Rectify bogus "Ir" constraints
> >
> > The "I" constraint (on the i386 platform) is used to restrict constants to
> > the 0..31 range, for use with instructions that must deal with bit numbers.
>
> It means I or r, not I modified by r. This means either a immediate constant
> 0..31 or a register, which is correct.
>
> % cat t18.c
>
> f()
> {
> asm("xxx %0" :: "rI" (10));
> asm("yyy %0" :: "rI" (100));
> }
> % gcc -O2 -S t18.c
> % cat t18.s
> ...
> f:
> .LFB2:
> #APP
> xxx $10
> #NO_APP
> movl $100, %eax
> #APP
> yyy %eax
> #NO_APP
> ret
> .LFE2:
> ...


Whoa, thanks for explaining that to me -- I didn't know, obviously. I had
just written a test program that used "Ir" with an automatic variable
defined in the inline function (as is the case with these bitops) and
observed that even when I gave > 32 values, it would still work -- hence
my conclusion.

However, the patch still stands, does it not? [ I will modify the
changelog, obviously. ] The thing is that we don't want to limit
@nr to <= 31 in the first place, or am I wrong again? :-)

Thanks,
Satyam
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