> And that is why I think you should just consider "bt $x,y" to be
> trivially the same thing and not at all ambiguous. Because there is
> ABSOLUTELY ZERO ambiguity when people write
>
> bt $63, mem
>
> Zero. Nada. None. The semantics are *exactly* the same for btl and btq
> in this case, so why would you want the user to specify one or the
> other?
I don't think you've actually tested that, have you? (x86-64)
int main() {
long val = 0xffffffff;
char res;
asm("btl $63, %1\n\tsetc %0" : "=r"(res) : "m"(val));
printf("%d\n", res);
asm("btq $63, %1\n\tsetc %0" : "=r"(res) : "m"(val));
printf("%d\n", res);
}
Tim.
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