[PATCH 1/6] x86: allow opcode templates to be templated

Jan Beulich jbeulich@suse.com
Fri Mar 6 14:51:00 GMT 2020


On 06.03.2020 15:42, H.J. Lu wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 6, 2020 at 12:11 AM Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com> wrote:
>>
>> In order to reduce redundancy as well as the chance of things going out
>> of sync (see a later patch for an example), make the opcode table
>> generator capable of recognizing and expanding templated templates. Use
>> the new capability for compacting the general purpose conditional insns.
>>
>> opcodes/
>> 2020-03-XX  Jan Beulich  <jbeulich@suse.com>
>>
>>         * i386-gen.c (struct template_arg, struct template_instance,
>>         struct template_param, struct template, templates,
>>         parse_template, expand_templates): New.
>>         (process_i386_opcodes): Various local variables moved to
>>         expand_templates. Call parse_template and expand_templates.
>>         * i386-opc.tbl (cc): New. Use it for Jcc, SETcc, and CMOVcc.
>>         * i386-tbl.h: Re-generate.
> 
> OK.  Thanks.
> 
>> ---
>> The set* templates lack No_bSuf - is there an expectation that in AT&T
>> mode a 'b' suffix may be used on them? Otherwise this should be added
> 
> What does setb do?

setb is just a normal mnemonic. I'm wondering about setbb or setnzb or
alike.

Jan



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