i386/asm-4 test: use amd64's natural addressing mode on all OSs

Uros Bizjak ubizjak@gmail.com
Thu Aug 15 13:12:00 GMT 2019


On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 3:01 PM Alexandre Oliva <oliva@adacore.com> wrote:
>
> On Aug 15, 2019, Uros Bizjak <ubizjak@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 1:39 PM Alexandre Oliva <oliva@adacore.com> wrote:
>
> >> If we just use the best-suited way to
> >> take the address of a function behind the compiler's back on each
> >> target variant, we're less likely to hit unexpected failures.
>
> > Perhaps we should use true absolute address:
>
> But why?  Using absolute addresses is not relevant at all to the test.
> We just need some means to take the address of foo without the
> compiler's realizing we're doing so.

The immediate of lea is limited to +-2GB, so we have in effect
-mcmodel=medium. Using movabs would be OK for all code models.

Uros.



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