Re: extrq wrong operand?

[Tom Horsley]

On Mon, 15 Apr 2013 05:28:44 +0000
Ekanathan, Saravanan wrote:

> Hi Tom Horsley,
> Binutils and AMD manual looks ok.

Yea, I eventually figured out that the 'V' form of the operand
couldn't possibly go with the 'reg' field being used as
to decode the operator. I think that Vdq in the summary table
should actually be a Udq (which would be an easy transcription
error to make when someone was filling in the tables).

> PFB, the snippet from "AMD64 Architecture Programmer's Manual - Volume 3: 
> General-Purpose and System Instructions" (Page 22 under Instruction Encoding):
> ......
> Note that the addressing mode mod = 11b is a register-direct mode, that is, 
> the operand is contained in
> the specified register, while the modes mod = [00b:10b] specify different 
> addressing modes for a
> memory-based operand.
> 
> For mod = 11b, the register containing the operand is specified by the r/m 
> field. For the other modes
> (mod = [00b:10b]), the mod and r/m fields are combined to specify the 
> addressing mode for the
> memory-based operand. Most are register-indirect addressing modes meaning 
> that the address of the
> memory-based operand is contained in the register specified by r/m. For these 
> register-indirect modes,
> mod = 01b and mod = 10b include an offset encoded in the displacement field 
> of the instruction.
> .....
> Regards,
> Saravanan.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> Subject: extrq wrong operand?
> 
> If I'm reading the AMD manuals correctly, the extrq instruction has one form 
> with operands described in the table as Vdq,Ib,Ib.
> The V in Vdq is described as being the ModRM reg field. If I disassemble an 
> example with objdump, I see this:
> 
> objdump:  40356c:     66 0f 78 c1 02 04       extrq  $0x4,$0x2,%xmm1
> 
> modrm byte is 0xc1
>    mod = 3
>    reg = 0
>    rm = 1
> 
> So objdump seems to be picking %xmm1 from the rm field, not the reg field.
> 
> Are the binutils busted, or are the AMD manuals busted?
> 
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