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> From: Linuxppc-dev
> [mailto:linuxppc-dev-bounces+david.laight=aculab....@lists.ozl
abs.org] On Behalf Of Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> Sent: 07 June 2012 07:40
> To: Michael Neuling
> Cc: mich...@ellerman.id.au; pau...@samba.org; Anton
> Blanchard; o...@lixom.net; linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Optimise the 64bit optimised
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> On Thu, 2012-06-07 at 16:05 +1000, Michael Neuling wrote:
>
> > One problem with this is when we construct the
> instructions, like using
> > anything from ppc-opcode.h. eg. using PPC_POPCNTB would
> need to go from:
> > PPC_POPCNTB(r3,r3)
> > to:
> > PPC_POPCNTB(3,3)
> > Which is less readable IMHO.
>
> Yes, I know. Not much to do about this, but it might still be
> worth it,
> how much time wasted due to mixing up or with ori in asm somewhere ?
>
> One option would be to #define R3 (or _r3) for use in those macros so
> we still have something nicer than just "3"... oh well.
You then need to catch all the other bugs where a register
is being used instead of a constant.
Time to make the assembler require %r0 (etc)
David
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