On Wed, 21 May 2008, Andreas Schwab wrote:
Trent Piepho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:For the LE versions, eventually they boil down to an asm that will look something like this: asm("sync; stwbrx %1,0,%2" : "=m" (*addr) : "r" (val), "r" (addr)); While not perfect, this appears to be the best one can do. The issue is that the "stwbrx" instruction only comes in an indexed, or 'x', version, in which the address is represented by the sum of two registers (the "0,%2"). Unfortunately, gcc doesn't have a constraint for an indexed memory reference.There is the "Z" constraint, which matches either an indirect or an indexed memory address. That should fit here.
This came up on the Freescale list. I should have put what I wrote there into my patch descrition: It's the _le versions that have a problem, since we can't get gcc to just use the register indexed mode. It seems like an obvious thing to have a constraint for, but I guess there weren't enough instructions that only come in 'x' versions to bother with it. There is a 'Z' constraint, "Memory operand that is an indexed or indirect from a register", but I tried it and it can use both "rb,ri" and "disp(rb)" forms. Actually, I'm not sure how 'Z' is any different than "m"? _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
