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Re: PATCH [1/n] addr32: Properly use Pmode and word_mode

On Mon, Mar 05, 2012 at 09:13:49AM -0800, H.J. Lu wrote:
> >> We are expecting address to be 0x1001 - 1 == 0x1000. ?But, what we get
> >> is 0x1000 + 0xffffffff, not 0x1000 since 0x67 address prefix only applies to
> >> base register to zero-extend 0xffffffff to 64bit.
> >
> > I would call this a bug in the specification - I guess that
> > 0x1001(%eax) works correctly.
> 
> This is how hardware works.

Do you really need to use addr32 prefixes for the direct TLS seg refs?
Without that the addresses will be sign-extended from the 32-bit immediate
(which is used in LP64 x86_64 code too) and everything will work fine, won't
it?

	Jakub
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