Prioritise mtfprd and mtvrd over mtvsrd in PowerPC disassembly

Alan Modra amodra@gmail.com
Mon Aug 10 23:18:53 GMT 2020


On Mon, Aug 10, 2020 at 01:38:48PM -0500, Peter Bergner wrote:
> On 8/10/20 7:20 AM, Alan Modra via Binutils wrote:
> > This makes mtvsrd consistent with mtvsrwz and similar.
> > 
> > gas/
> > 	* testsuite/gas/ppc/power8.d: Update.
> > 	* testsuite/gas/ppc/vsx2.d: Update.
> > opcodes/
> > 	* ppc-opc.c (powerpc_opcodes): Prioritise mtfprd and mtvrd over
> > 	mtvsrd, and similarly for mfvsrd.
> 
> I'm starting to wonder about this.  Looking through the gcc.target/powerpc/
> test directory, there are a *LOT* of scan-assembler tests looking for
> m[ft]vsrd.  Those will all FAIL now.

No, scan-assembler* looks at gcc -S output, not objdump -d output.
This change to disassembly can't be blamed for gcc testsuite fails.

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Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM


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