Hi everyone,
I've decided to take on https://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=37785 -
I've noticed that the compiler isn't too good at working out the sizes
of SSE and AVX instructions. If you look at
Tx86Instruction.SetInstructionOpsize in compiler/x86/rax86.pas, it
checks for individual problematic instructions rather than any logical
flags. I feel this isn't viable in the long-term (i.e. I really don't
want to continually add exceptional instructions) and has the code smell
of something being fundamentally wrong or incomplete with how
instruction sizes and encodings are determined.
I'm looking to see if there's a way I can detect the correct size
logically given the flags. I figure I'll need to learn a few things
about AVX512 as well so I don't mess anything up (I've noticed a few
AVX512 flags to indicate if scalars rather than vectors are being used,
and wondering if they can be incorporated into the older SSE and AVX
instructions in x86ins.dat.
Long story short, I'm going to experiment a bit to see if I can develop
an algorithm that works and is correct.
Gareth aka. Kit
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