Re: Strange instruction

[Thiemo Seufer <ica2_ts@csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de>]

Nigel Stephens wrote:
> Thiemo Seufer wrote:
> >GNU as has "move" as builtin macro which is expanded differently for
> >32 and 64 bit mode. This simplifies the task of writing code for both
> >models. Unfortunately the expansion was broken for a while and
> >generated always the 64 bit version if the toolchain was 64bit
> >_capable_. IIRC this was fixed in the early 2.14 timeframe.
> 
> Wouldn't it be safer, as Kevin suggests, for the "move" macro to 
> generate "or $rd,$0,$rs", since that will work correctly in either mode?

For CPUs with two adders the instruction scheduling is a bit better.
Ther are also many other macros which are expanded in dependence of
the 32/64 bit address/register size, a different "move" macro
expansion won't help much if the assembler invocation was wrong.


Thiemo