[PATCH] powerpc: Remove uses of operand modifier (%s) in inline asm

[Adhemerval Zanella]

GCC developers seems to have included this modifier back [1], should we really
need it (is there a released version that do not support it)? 

[1] https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2016-01/msg01937.html

On 27-01-2016 11:25, Gabriel F. T. Gomes wrote:
> The operand modifier %s on powerpc is an undocumented internal implementation
> detail of GCC.  Besides that, the GCC community wants to remove it.  This patch
> rewrites the expressions that use this modifier with logically equivalent
> expressions that don't require it.
> 
> Explanation for the substitution:
> 
> The %s modifier takes an immediate operand and prints 32 less such immediate.
> Thus, in the previous code, the expression resulted in:
> 
>   32 - __builtin_ffs(e)
> 
> where e was guaranteed to have exactly a single bit set, by the following
> expressions:
> 
>   (e & (e-1) == 0) : e has at most one bit set.
>   (e != 0)         : e is not zero, thus it has at least one bit set.
> 
> Since we guarantee that there is exactly only one bit set, the following
> statement is true:
> 
>   32 - __builtin_ffs(e) == __builtin_clz(e)
> 
> Thus, we can replace __builtin_ffs with __builtin_clz and remove the %s operand
> modifier.
> 
> 2016-01-25  Gabriel F. T. Gomes  <gftg@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> 
> 	* sysdeps/powerpc/bits/fenvinline.h (feraiseexcept): Remove use of %s
> 	operand modifier.
> 	(feclearexcept): Likewise.
> ---
>  sysdeps/powerpc/bits/fenvinline.h | 8 ++++----
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/sysdeps/powerpc/bits/fenvinline.h b/sysdeps/powerpc/bits/fenvinline.h
> index 4a7b2af..7d7938e 100644
> --- a/sysdeps/powerpc/bits/fenvinline.h
> +++ b/sysdeps/powerpc/bits/fenvinline.h
> @@ -42,8 +42,8 @@
>          && __e != FE_INVALID)						      \
>        {									      \
>  	if (__e != 0)							      \
> -	  __asm__ __volatile__ ("mtfsb1 %s0"				      \
> -				: : "i#*X" (__builtin_ffs (__e)));	      \
> +	  __asm__ __volatile__ ("mtfsb1 %0"				      \
> +				: : "i#*X" (__builtin_clz (__e)));	      \
>          __ret = 0;							      \
>        }									      \
>      else								      \
> @@ -61,8 +61,8 @@
>          && __e != FE_INVALID)						      \
>        {									      \
>  	if (__e != 0)							      \
> -	  __asm__ __volatile__ ("mtfsb0 %s0"				      \
> -				: : "i#*X" (__builtin_ffs (__e)));	      \
> +	  __asm__ __volatile__ ("mtfsb0 %0"				      \
> +				: : "i#*X" (__builtin_clz (__e)));	      \
>          __ret = 0;							      \
>        }									      \
>      else								      \
>