[binutils-gdb] x86: simplify and slightly correct XCHG vs NOP checking

Jan Beulich jbeulich@sourceware.org
Fri Dec 2 08:54:26 GMT 2022


https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=4473201422ad238f90f3151454959a6d35cfb6c2

commit 4473201422ad238f90f3151454959a6d35cfb6c2
Author: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Date:   Fri Dec 2 09:53:33 2022 +0100

    x86: simplify and slightly correct XCHG vs NOP checking
    
    For one, because of CheckRegSize, there's no need to check the size of
    both (register) operands. And then in process_suffix() check opcode
    space rather than the (potentially ambiguous) extension opcode.

Diff:
---
 gas/config/tc-i386.c | 8 +++-----
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/gas/config/tc-i386.c b/gas/config/tc-i386.c
index c58a570123f..3c1e2c91afc 100644
--- a/gas/config/tc-i386.c
+++ b/gas/config/tc-i386.c
@@ -6686,8 +6686,7 @@ match_template (char mnem_suffix)
 	      && t->opcode_modifier.opcodespace == SPACE_BASE
 	      && i.types[0].bitfield.instance == Accum
 	      && i.types[0].bitfield.dword
-	      && i.types[1].bitfield.instance == Accum
-	      && i.types[1].bitfield.dword)
+	      && i.types[1].bitfield.instance == Accum)
 	    continue;
 	  /* xrelease mov %eax, <disp> is another special case. It must not
 	     match the accumulator-only encoding of mov.  */
@@ -7408,11 +7407,10 @@ process_suffix (void)
 	     need rex64. */
 	  && ! (i.operands == 2
 		&& i.tm.base_opcode == 0x90
-		&& i.tm.extension_opcode == None
+		&& i.tm.opcode_modifier.opcodespace == SPACE_BASE
 		&& i.types[0].bitfield.instance == Accum
 		&& i.types[0].bitfield.qword
-		&& i.types[1].bitfield.instance == Accum
-		&& i.types[1].bitfield.qword))
+		&& i.types[1].bitfield.instance == Accum))
 	i.rex |= REX_W;
 
       break;


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