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%0 and match_dup in .md


Hi,

 I read MD manual for GCC and I got confused by the
functioning of '%' constraint modifier character and
match_dup in RTL template. The MD states:

  '%' in constraint declares the instruction to be
commutative for this operand and the following
operand. This is often used in patterns for addition
instructions that really have two operands: the result
must go in one of the arguments. An example from
68000:

(define_insn "addhi3"
   [(set (match_operand:HI 0 "general_operand" "=m,r")
      (plus (match_operand:HI 1 "general_operand"
"%0,0")
         (match_operand:HI 2 "general_operand"
"di,g")))]
................

As far as I understand, it comes out that operand 0
and operand 1 are refering to the same expression. So,
why can't match_dup be used in place of operand 1? In
fact, I'm unable to figure out the differences between
the two. I may be missing something very important.
Please help!!

Regards and Thanks,
Vimal

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