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On 08.08.2019 18:22, H.J. Lu wrote:
On Thu, Aug 8, 2019 at 12:47 AM Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com> wrote:On 07.08.2019 20:00, H.J. Lu wrote:On Wed, Aug 7, 2019 at 1:29 AM Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com> wrote:On 06.08.2019 23:11, H.J. Lu wrote:On Tue, Aug 6, 2019 at 7:29 AM Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com> wrote:With AVX512VL disabled (e.g. when writing code for the Knights family of processors) these insns aren't ambiguous when used with a memory source, and hence should be accepted without suffix or operand size specifier. When AVX512VL is enabled, to be consistent with this as well as other ambiguous operand size handling it seems better to just wanrn about the ambiguity in AT&T mode, and still default to 512-bit operands (on the assumption that the code may have been written without AVX512VL in mind yet). gas/ 2019-08-XX Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com> * config/tc-i386.c (avx512): New (at file scope), moved from (check_VecOperands): ... here. (process_suffix): Add [XYZ]MMword operand size handling. * testsuite/gas/i386/noavx512-2.s, testsuite/gas/i386/noreg16.s, testsuite/gas/i386/noreg32.s, testsuite/gas/i386/noreg64.s: Add VFPCLASS tests. * testsuite/gas/i386/noavx512-2.l, testsuite/gas/i386/noreg16.d, testsuite/gas/i386/noreg16.l, testsuite/gas/i386/noreg32.d, testsuite/gas/i386/noreg32.l, testsuite/gas/i386/noreg64.d, testsuite/gas/i386/noreg64.l: Adjust expectations. opcodes/ 2019-08-XX Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com> * i386-opc.tbl (vfpclasspd, vfpclassps): Add Unspecified. * i386-tbl.h: Re-generate.We should keep the suffix even if AVX512VL isn't enabled so that we don't need to check if AVX512VL isn't enabled to interpret the instruction.But that's wrong (and fixing this is the whole point of this patch). As you've said elsewhere, unambiguous (SIMD in particular) insns should not require any use of suffixes.When I look at such instruction, I should be able to tell what it is without checking if AVX512VL is enabled.This entirely depends on the context: When all you think about is Knights hardware (or AVX512F/AVX512DQ in more general terms), then seeing (and in particular being _forced_ to use) the suffix is confusing (wrong). No-one says that in this case the suffix won't be allowed anymore. The problem here seems to be your use of "I", when instead you should also be considering how other people may view things. As a general statement: The assembler should accept (without any diagnostic) anything that's unambiguously mappable to a valid encoding.When I debug assembly codes: vfpclasspd $0, (%eax), %k0 it is hard to tell the memory operand size.
You're kidding? The presented patch makes no change whatsoever to the disassembler (as can also be seen from the testsuite extensions it makes). Doing so would actually be quite hard I think without it even knowing of the distinction between Knights family and other processors, and without having any CPU capabilities attribute attached to insns. Jan
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