generation of divxu opcode

[Andrew Haley]

Dhananjay R. Deshpande writes:
 > Hi,
 > 
 > 
 > > -----Original Message-----
 > > From: Sanjiv Kumar Gupta, Noida [mailto:sanjivg@noida.hcltech.com]
 > > Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2002 5:14 PM
 > > To: gnuh8@gnuh8.org.uk
 > > Subject: generation of divxu opcode
 > > 
 > > 
 > > Hi,
 > > 
 > > I wonder why h8300-hms-gcc does not generate "divxu" opcode. 
 > > it rather uses
 > > a function call even for 16-bit/8-bit division. Any idea why 
 > > such behaviour.
 > 
 > >From the H8300 programming manual  - 

 > The divxu instruction divides the contents of a 16-bit register Rd
 > (destination register) by the contents of an 8-bit register Rs
 > (source register) and stores the result in the 16-bit register
 > Rd. The division is unsigned. The operation performed is 16 bits
 > ÷ 8 bits -> 8-bit quotient and 8-bit remainder. The quotient is
 > placed in the lower 8 bits of Rd. The remainder is placed in the
 > upper 8 bits of Rd. Valid results are not assured if division by
 > zero is attempted or an overflow occurs.

"Valid results are not assured."  Nasty.

 > So this instruction cannot be directly used for 16-bit/8-bit
 > division. For e.g. if you are dividing 0xFFF0 by 2, then quotient
 > is 0x7FF8 which can't be stored in 8 bits, so overflow occurs. So
 > divxu.b can only be used for 8-bit/8-bit division.

Right, but that in no way explains why divxu.b is only disabled on
H8300.

Andrew.