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Re: PATCH: Remove memory check on SVME instructions
- From: "Jan Beulich" <jbeulich at novell dot com>
- To: <hjl at lucon dot org>
- Cc: <christophe dot harle at amd dot com>,<dwarak dot rajagopal at amd dot com>, <michael dot meissner at amd dot com>, <binutils at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2007 18:07:04 +0100
- Subject: Re: PATCH: Remove memory check on SVME instructions
>>> "H.J. Lu" <hjl@lucon.org> 09/05/07 3:27 PM >>>
>> >SVME instructions don't take any memory operand. You will get an
>> >error if you try to use an memory operand.
>>
>> They really do, just the addressing is so that only rAX can be used. If you check
>> the svme test case, you'll see that there are explict uses of memory operands. In
>> the original patch implementation it may not have been that way, but since the
>> meaning of the operands is memory-like, we agreed on a memory-like notation
>> iirc.
>
>It is wrong and has been fixed.
On what basis are you concluding this? As I said, we had specifically agreed on a
memory operand like notation, to reflect the actual effect these opcodes have.
Jan