shifts and rotates by 1 on ix86
Alexander Sokolov
robocop@netlink.ru
Wed May 10 03:27:00 GMT 2000
On Wed, 10 May 2000, Alan Modra wrote:
> On Wed, 10 May 2000, Alexander Sokolov wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 10 May 2000, Alan Modra wrote:
> >
> > > You can get the smaller opcode sequence by writing "shll %eax".
> >
> > This should be documented in manual.
>
> True. Along with a few of other details too.
Don't forget such directives as .weak and .previous which are widely used
for a long time but still remain undocumented.
> > > The reason gas does not do this automatically is that on certain processors,
> > > eg. 486, the D1 E0 opcode sequence is slower than C1 E0 01.
> >
> > Then why not to add directives like .386, .486 etc or a command line
> > option to specify the target cpu type?
>
> That's not such a bad idea, particularly if the directive also enabled
> warnings when someone tried to use an instruction not available on the
> chosen cpu.
Good idea. This would make gas behave like masm or tasm which do not allow
the instructions unless the cpu that supports them is explicitly
specified. I think it's easy to implement such behaviour in gas.
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Alexander Sokolov
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