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Re: [Lightning] About 32 and 64 bits registers


From: Paolo Bonzini
Subject: Re: [Lightning] About 32 and 64 bits registers
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 08:59:48 +0200
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On 08/24/2010 01:44 AM, Paulo César Pereira de Andrade wrote:
   How is it expected to handle proper sign/zero extension when there
are no named 8/16/32/64 bit registers, that is, there is no JIT_R0c,
JIT_R0s, JIT_R0i and/or JIT_R0l.

That's on purpose, RISC machines do not have that.

   This has a nasty side effect that some operations must be sign/zero
extended, for example, when loading data from a memory location. But
then, some operations become somewhat hard to explain, for example:

Loads and stores always sign/zero-extend to _l/_ul size.

   jit_bltr_i LABEL, JIT_R0, IMMEDIATE

You mean jit_blti_i.

this should be understood as "treated JIT_R0 value as 32 bits, but
signed extend it, as well as immediate" ?

Yes.  Instead, blti_ui would zero extend it.

But to do an "optimized" operation, it must ensure that JIT_R0 is
actually holding a 64 bits value.

Using _l operations for branches will usually give the fastest code.

   jit_movi_i JIT_R0 IMMEDIATE

this should be just an alias to jit_movi_l on 64 bits, or, better
saying, should be more like:

   jit_movi_i JIT_R0 (cast_to_int_32)IMMEDIATE

Yes, it should be the latter.

Paolo



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