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Re: more tidying of x86 feature tests


On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 04:31:34PM +0100, Uros Bizjak wrote:
> On 3/6/07, Jan Hubicka <hubicka@ucw.cz> wrote:
> 
> >> >+  /* ??? Any idea why this is unconditionally disabled for 64-bit?  */
> >> >+  if (TARGET_64BIT)
> >> >+    TARGET_USE_SAHF = 0;
> >>
> >> IIRC, early x86_64 ISA draft didn't have SAHF and some prototypes didn't
> >> handle this insn.
> >>
> >> At least for AMD, there is no need to disable this, as sahf is
> >> DirectPath latency 1 insn.
> >
> >My recollection is that while AMD chips accepts SAHF, Intel chips
> >originally didn't accept SAHF and new P4s and Cores does.
> >At least wikipedia claims:
> >
> >Early Intel CPUs with Intel 64 lacked LAHF and SAHF instructions
> >supported by AMD64 until introduction of Pentium 4 G1 step in December
> >2005. LAHF and SAHF are load and store instructions, respectively, for
> >certain status flags. These instructions are used for virtualization and
> >floating-point condition handling.
> >
> >So I guess the conditional above can be enabled iff we are 64bit and
> >arch is specified as "x86-64" or "nocona"
> 
> Attached patch implements this proposal.
> 
> 2007-03-07  Uros Bizjak  <ubizjak@gmail.com>
> 
>        * config/i386/i386.c (ix86_tune_features) [X86_TUNE_SAHF]:
> 	Also enable for m_K8 and m_AMDFAM10.
> 	(override_options): Do not unconditionally disable
> 	TARGET_USE_SAHF for 64-bit.
> 	* config/i386/i386.md (x86_sahf_1): Do not disable for
> 	TARGET_64BIT.
> 
> Patch was tested on i686-pc-linux-gnu. If there are no objections,
> I'll commit this patch to SVN shortly.
> 

Will -mtune=k8 use lahf with this patch?


H.J.


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