Bug: gather/scatter accepts same registers in destination/src and index
Jan Beulich
JBeulich@suse.com
Wed Jan 22 08:00:00 GMT 2014
>>> On 21.01.14 at 19:44, Michael Zolotukhin <michael.v.zolotukhin@gmail.com> wrote:
>> While
>>
>> vmovaps [rax], zmm0
>>
>> is allowed
>>
>> vscatterdps [rax]{k1}, zmm0
>>
>> isn't, i.e. this is not a typical "invalid operand". Same for gather
>> of course. Also, I'm not sure if this
>>
>> vscatterdps [rax+zmm1], zmm0
>>
>> (also invalid iirc) is being checked for already.
> I see what you meant, it is a good point. However, I think it's better
> to be a separate patch, what do you think?
The subject of the mail would say otherwise, but I don't really
care whether that gets done in one or multiple patches.
Jan
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