[PATCH] x86-64: remove an inconsistent and redundant diagnostic

H.J. Lu hjl.tools@gmail.com
Mon Jul 30 17:02:00 GMT 2012


On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 8:26 AM, Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com> wrote:
> Since the word to byte register conversion isn't active for x86-64
> anyway, there's also no need to issue a separate, inconsistent
> diagnostic in some of the cases - non-matching operands will be
> complained about anyway.
>
> 2012-07-24  Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
>
>         * config/tc-i386-intel.c (check_byte_reg): Check for I/O port
>         register earlier, and just once. Drop diagnostic that got
>         issued only for some registers.
>
> --- a/gas/config/tc-i386.c
> +++ b/gas/config/tc-i386.c
> @@ -4734,6 +4734,10 @@ check_byte_reg (void)
>        if (i.types[op].bitfield.reg8)
>         continue;
>
> +      /* I/O port address operands are OK too.  */
> +      if (i.tm.operand_types[op].bitfield.inoutportreg)
> +       continue;
> +
>        /* crc32 doesn't generate this warning.  */
>        if (i.tm.base_opcode == 0xf20f38f0)
>         continue;
> @@ -4741,21 +4745,13 @@ check_byte_reg (void)
>        if ((i.types[op].bitfield.reg16
>            || i.types[op].bitfield.reg32
>            || i.types[op].bitfield.reg64)
> -         && i.op[op].regs->reg_num < 4)
> +         && i.op[op].regs->reg_num < 4
> +         /* Prohibit these changes in 64bit mode, since the lowering
> +            would be more complicated.  */
> +         && flag_code != CODE_64BIT)
>         {
> -         /* Prohibit these changes in the 64bit mode, since the
> -            lowering is more complicated.  */
> -         if (flag_code == CODE_64BIT
> -             && !i.tm.operand_types[op].bitfield.inoutportreg)
> -           {
> -             as_bad (_("incorrect register `%s%s' used with `%c' suffix"),
> -                     register_prefix, i.op[op].regs->reg_name,
> -                     i.suffix);
> -             return 0;
> -           }
>  #if REGISTER_WARNINGS
> -         if (!quiet_warnings
> -             && !i.tm.operand_types[op].bitfield.inoutportreg)
> +         if (!quiet_warnings)
>             as_warn (_("using `%s%s' instead of `%s%s' due to `%c' suffix"),
>                      register_prefix,
>                      (i.op[op].regs + (i.types[op].bitfield.reg16
>

OK.  Thanks.

-- 
H.J.



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