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

Jan Beulich jbeulich@novell.com
Thu Aug 28 14:29:00 GMT 2008


>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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