gas: bmi

[Quentin Neill]

On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 9:47 AM, nick clifton <nickc@redhat.com> wrote:
> Hi Christopher,
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>> (I may have sent this to the wrong list... resubmitting...)
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> You have found the correct list now.
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>> Hey guys, how do I get gas to output the BEXTR instruction?
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> Try searching for it in the GAS testsuite.  For example:
> gas/testsuite/gas/i386/x86-64-tbm.s.  So based on that, this should work:
>
>  % cat fred.s
>
>         .allow_index_reg
>        .text
>
>  _start:
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>    BEXTR    $0x0,%eax,%r15d
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>  % as fred.s -o fred.o
>  % objdump -d fred.o
>  Disassembly of section .text:
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>  0000000000000000 <_start>:
>     0:   8f 6a 78 10 f8 00 00    bextr  $0x0,%eax,%r15d
>     7:   00 00
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> Cheers
>  Nick

Note there are two forms of bextr, "register form" in the BMI
instruction set, and "immediate form" in the TBM instruction set.

As Nick showed, the test suite is a good place to start, it shows both forms:

$ grep -m1 -i bextr gas/testsuite/gas/i386/???.s
gas/testsuite/gas/i386/bmi.s:   bextr %eax,%ebx,%esi
gas/testsuite/gas/i386/tbm.s:    BEXTR    $0x67,(%edx,%esi,8),%ebx
gas/testsuite/gas/i386/x86-64-bmi.s:    bextr %eax,%ebx,%esi
gas/testsuite/gas/i386/x86-64-tbm.s:    BEXTR    $0x0,%eax,%r15d

-- 
Quentin