[PATCH] MIPS gas: 64 bit aware rol/ror macros

Eric Christopher echristo@redhat.com
Mon May 13 16:51:00 GMT 2002


> Personally, I disagree with this.
> 
> Manuals such as See Mips Run document rol/ror to be 32-bit, and add
> drol/dror macros to do 64-bit rotates.  (SMR pages 188-189, 196.)
> 
> Further, if you redefine rol/ror to be 64-bit on machines with 64-bit
> GPRs... well, how do you do 32-bit rotates on those machines?

Most ISAs have a dror32 insn, but fwiw, I agree with you.

-eric

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