gas feature: support for larger bit immediates in bt

Andi Kleen ak@suse.de
Wed Sep 19 13:40:00 GMT 2007


One feature that gas is currently missing and what would be sometimes nice
to have is to support offsets >31 in the bt etc. family of instructions
by folding the value/32 into an byte memory offset.

e.g. bt $64,(%rax) can be converted to bt $0,8(%rax) 

The IA32 instruction reference manual even mentions that some assemblers
support this.

-Andi



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