Feature request: Set the direction flag on x86/x64 register->register operations

Jan Beulich jbeulich@novell.com
Fri Dec 19 15:45:00 GMT 2008


>>> "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com> 19.12.08 16:25 >>>
>On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 1:07 AM, Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> wrote:
>> Also, the whole thing seems half-baked to me, as it only deals with
>> alternative encodings using the 'D' bit. Using an .a suffix and handling
>
>".r" handles insns which can be encoded differently by swapping operands
>in encoding:

But I was thinking of movq (between mm or xmm registers), pextrw, or
64-bit mov between mm/xmm and memory in 64-bit mode.

Jan



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