[Bug gas/818] error handling %farg[0-4] registers

[nickc at redhat dot com]

------- Additional Comments From nickc at redhat dot com  2005-04-11 16:20 
-------
Subject: Re:  New: error handling %farg[0-4] registers

Hi Eric, Hi David,

> When gas encounters the statement:
>     fldws       -4(%r22),%farg0
> it issues the error:
>     Error: Field out of range [0..31] (-59).
>     Error: Invalid operands
> similarly for %farg1, %farg2, and %farg3, it issues similar warnings with -58,
> -57, and -56 as the constant.
> 
> HP's native assembler accepts the statement.  When I disassemble the output of
> the native assembler, it converted that statement to:
>     fldw -4(,r22),fr4
> 
> So it appears %farg0 should be a synonym for %fr4.  As a workaround, I've
> modified my code to use %fr[4-7] instead of %farg[0-3] and gas is happy with 
> this.
> 
> This bug is present in binutils-2.15 and in the binutils-050404 snapshot I 
> just
> tested.

The patch below appears to fix this problem, but I am not an expert on 
the HPPA instruction set - David - do you think that the patch is OK ?

Cheers
   Nick

gas/ChangeLog
2005-04-11  Nick Clifton  <address@hidden>

        PR gas/818
        * config/tc-hppa.c (pre_defined_registers): Fix %farg[0-3]
        synonyms.

Index: gas/config/tc-hppa.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/src/src/gas/config/tc-hppa.c,v
retrieving revision 1.115
diff -c -3 -p -r1.115 tc-hppa.c
*** gas/config/tc-hppa.c        3 Mar 2005 11:47:50 -0000       1.115
--- gas/config/tc-hppa.c        11 Apr 2005 16:15:00 -0000
*************** static int print_errors = 1;
*** 811,816 ****
--- 811,817 ----

      %r26 - %r23 have %arg0 - %arg3 as synonyms
      %r28 - %r29 have %ret0 - %ret1 as synonyms
+    %fr4 - %fr7 have %farg0 - %farg3 as synonyms
      %r30 has %sp as a synonym
      %r27 has %dp as a synonym
      %r2  has %rp as a synonym
*************** static const struct pd_reg pre_defined_r
*** 854,863 ****
     {"%dp",    27},
     {"%eiem",  15},
     {"%eirr",  23},
!   {"%farg0",  5},
!   {"%farg1",  6},
!   {"%farg2",  7},
!   {"%farg3",  8},
     {"%fr0",    0 + FP_REG_BASE},
     {"%fr0l",   0 + FP_REG_BASE},
     {"%fr0r",   0 + FP_REG_BASE + FP_REG_RSEL},
--- 855,864 ----
     {"%dp",    27},
     {"%eiem",  15},
     {"%eirr",  23},
!   {"%farg0",  4 + FP_REG_BASE},
!   {"%farg1",  5 + FP_REG_BASE},
!   {"%farg2",  6 + FP_REG_BASE},
!   {"%farg3",  7 + FP_REG_BASE},
     {"%fr0",    0 + FP_REG_BASE},
     {"%fr0l",   0 + FP_REG_BASE},
     {"%fr0r",   0 + FP_REG_BASE + FP_REG_RSEL},


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