Modes on CONST_INTs
Joern Rennecke
amylaar@redhat.com
Mon Nov 27 18:11:00 GMT 2000
> Right. Also, having the signedness/unsignedness property
> available would find more bugs, as Michael Meissner pointed out.
No, the signedness / unsignedness is solely a property of the operation
that operates on the constant.
Consider:
(set (reg:HI 1) (const_int -1))
(set (cc0) (compare (reg:HI 1) (const_int 0)))
(set (reg:SI 2) (ugt:HI (cc0) (const_int 0)))
(set (cc0) (compare (reg:HI 1) (const_int 0)))
(set (reg:SI 3) (gt:HI (cc0) (const_int 0)))
The constant (const_int -1) has no intrinsic signedness. It is the
ugt operation that is unsigned and gt that is signed.
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