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Re: [AArch64][PATCH 1/2] Add ARMv8.2 instructions BFC and REV64.
- From: "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich at suse dot com>
- To: "Matthew Wahab" <matthew dot wahab at foss dot arm dot com>
- Cc: "binutils at sourceware dot org" <binutils at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Mon, 07 Dec 2015 02:13:44 -0700
- Subject: Re: [AArch64][PATCH 1/2] Add ARMv8.2 instructions BFC and REV64.
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>>> On 24.11.15 at 12:17, <matthew.wahab@foss.arm.com> wrote:
>@@ -1777,6 +1787,8 @@ struct aarch64_opcode aarch64_opcode_table[] =
> {"asr", 0x13000000, 0x7f800000, bitfield, OP_ASR_IMM, CORE, OP3 (Rd, Rn, IMM), QL_SHIFT, F_ALIAS | F_P2 | F_CONV},
> {"bfm", 0x33000000, 0x7f800000, bitfield, 0, CORE, OP4 (Rd, Rn, IMMR, IMMS), QL_BF, F_HAS_ALIAS | F_SF | F_N},
> {"bfi", 0x33000000, 0x7f800000, bitfield, OP_BFI, CORE, OP4 (Rd, Rn, IMM, WIDTH), QL_BF2, F_ALIAS | F_P1 | F_CONV},
>+ {"bfc", 0x330003e0, 0x7f8003e0, bitfield, OP_BFC, ARMV8_2,
>+ OP3 (Rd, IMM, WIDTH), QL_BF1, F_ALIAS | F_P2 | F_CONV},
Considering that aiui gfc is just an alias of bfi (which in turn is an alias
of bfm), is it really desirable to prevent use of it an pre-8.2 assembly
sources? (I can see though why you may want to not disassemble it.)
Jan