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Re: ppc64 assembler issue
- To: Richard Henderson <rth at cygnus dot com>
- Subject: Re: ppc64 assembler issue
- From: David Edelsohn <dje at watson dot ibm dot com>
- Date: Sat, 08 May 1999 13:10:24 -0400
- Cc: Michael Meissner <meissner at cygnus dot com>, cort at attis dot cs dot nmt dot edu, egcs-patches at egcs dot cygnus dot com
It is the assembler that is wrong and should accept either signed
or unsigned values for lis and the others. I noticed this strangeness in
the assembler recently myself and the handling of 32-bit values not
extended to 64-bit for some undocumented reason. The assembler should be
fixed, not GCC.
I also noticed that -many still imposes 32-bit versus 64-bit
instructions which also is incorrect. PowerPC64 has a bridge-mode which
also 32-bit instructions to have some reasonable meaning, but gas does not
provide any way to allow 32-bit target instructions mixed with 64-bit
target instructions.
David