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Re: [PATCH] x86: allow 1- and 0-operand forms of fcomip and fucomip

From: "Jan Beulich" <jbeulich at novell dot com>
To: "H.J. Lu" <hjl dot tools at gmail dot com>
Cc: <binutils at sourceware dot org>
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 17:29:30 +0100
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: allow 1- and 0-operand forms of fcomip and fucomip
References: <48B587D0.76E4.0078.0@novell.com> <6dc9ffc80808270854t62347369rcc0eb5cb5b839c@mail.gmail.com> <48B598D2.76E4.0078.0@novell.com> <6dc9ffc80808270922s78ad61caua474c91e80cfb1ad@mail.gmail.com>

>I really don't like those x87 gas extensions. It makes it harder to look them
>up in IA32/Intel64 SDM. I don't think we should add more unless we can't
>live without them.

So ease of porting code from other assemblers doesn't count? Also, other
than what's in gas already, this patch only adds alternative forms (aliases)
with less operands, so lookup in manuals isn't affected - you still look for
the same opcode.

Jan

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  - From: Jan Beulich
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  - From: H.J. Lu
- Re: [PATCH] x86: allow 1- and 0-operand forms of fcomip and fucomip
  - From: Jan Beulich
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