gcc generates invalid i386 fmulp

Alan Modra alan@spri.levels.unisa.edu.au
Tue Apr 14 01:01:00 GMT 1998


Hello all,
  I've been doing a little work on gas for i386, tidying up a few
things and adding reasonably strict operand/suffix checking.  The new
gas has already found a couple of errors in the linux kernel asm, one
in glibc1, and a problem with gcc.

For anyone who's interested, the gas patches can be found at
ftp://mullet.levels.unisa.edu.au/private/teabag/gas-980407-alan.diff.gz
They should apply to binutils-2.9 without problems too.

The gcc problem (found by mikeg@weiden.de (Michael L. Galbraith)),
when compiling glibc2 is that gcc will generate instructions like
	`fsubp %st(1),%st'

Now there's no instruction to do %st <- %st - %st(1) and pop, and it
doesn't make sense to pop the result anyway.  Older versions of gas
assemble this instruction to 0xdee9, which does
%st(1) <- %st(1) - %st, pop, ie. `fsubp %st,%st(1)'  (Note!! Because
of the broken UnixWare compatibility requirement for gas, you need to
write `fsubrp %st,%st(1)'  See the comments I put at the top of
binutils/include/opcode/i386.h)


	* config/i386/i386.c (output_387_binary_op): Swap operands
	when popping if the result is st(0), to prevent invalid
	instructions like `fmulp %st(1),%st' and `fsubp %st(1),%st'

--- gcc-2.8.1/config/i386/i386.c	Thu Dec  4 00:31:23 1997
+++ gcc/config/i386/i386.c	Tue Apr 14 00:00:43 1998
@@ -3827,9 +3827,12 @@ output_387_binary_op (insn, operands)
 	  return "";
 	}
 
       if (find_regno_note (insn, REG_DEAD, REGNO (operands[2])))
-	return strcat (buf, AS2 (p,%2,%0));
+	if (STACK_TOP_P (operands[0]))
+	  return strcat (buf, AS2 (p,%0,%2));
+	else
+	  return strcat (buf, AS2 (p,%2,%0));
 
       if (STACK_TOP_P (operands[0]))
 	return strcat (buf, AS2C (%y2,%0));
       else
@@ -3858,12 +3861,18 @@ output_387_binary_op (insn, operands)
       if (! STACK_REG_P (operands[1]) || ! STACK_REG_P (operands[2]))
 	abort ();
 
       if (find_regno_note (insn, REG_DEAD, REGNO (operands[2])))
-	return strcat (buf, AS2 (rp,%2,%0));
+	if (STACK_TOP_P (operands[0]))
+	  return strcat (buf, AS2 (p,%0,%2));
+	else
+	  return strcat (buf, AS2 (rp,%2,%0));
 
       if (find_regno_note (insn, REG_DEAD, REGNO (operands[1])))
-	return strcat (buf, AS2 (p,%1,%0));
+	if (STACK_TOP_P (operands[0]))
+	  return strcat (buf, AS2 (rp,%0,%1));
+	else
+	  return strcat (buf, AS2 (p,%1,%0));
 
       if (STACK_TOP_P (operands[0]))
 	{
 	  if (STACK_TOP_P (operands[1]))



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