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Re: ppc instructions in gas

On Thu, May 06, 1999 at 05:16:40PM -0600, Cort Dougan wrote:
> Ah-ha!  The problem is this:
> 
> We do immediate loads of (for example) 0xffff.  Even with lis (which takes
> a signed 16-bit value) this works with 32-bit.  It shouldn't since 0xffff
> is > +32k.  When I assemble with -Wa,-mppc64 it doesn't work and complains
> that 0xffff is > +32k.
> 
> Eh?  Any idea what's going on?

In gas/config/tc-ppc.c --

1067              if ((operand->flags & PPC_OPERAND_SIGNOPT) != 0
1068                  && ppc_size == PPC_OPCODE_32)
1069                max = (1 << operand->bits) - 1;

Looks like there's some backward compatibility thing going on. 

You said lis takes a signed value?  Meaning that the register
gets 0xffffffffffff0000?  If so, in my opinion the assembler is
correct to bitch at you for 0xffff as an operand.


r~