[LLVMdev] Bug in LEA16r (X86InstrArithmetic.td) ??

[Jun Koi]

On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 4:03 PM, Tim Northover <t.p.northover at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Jun,
>
> On 24 June 2014 08:08, Jun Koi <junkoi2004 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > def LEA16r   : I<0x8D, MRMSrcMem,
> >                  (outs GR16:$dst), (ins i32mem:$src),
> >                  "lea{w}\t{$src|$dst}, {$dst|$src}", [], IIC_LEA_16>,
> > OpSize16;
> >
> >
> > Please correct me if I am wrong, but I think "ins i32mem" should be "ins
> > i16mem" because this is about 16bit register?
>
> I think there's something going on here, but it's probably more
> complicated than that. The lea instruction just calculates an address,
> so the resulting pointer doesn't really *have* a size.
>
> Binutils seems to handle this reasonably by omitting the "dword
> ptr"/"word ptr" part entirely when printing: "lea ax, [eax]" instead
> of "mov ax, word ptr [eax]". The assembler accepts all variants, which
> may or may not be a good choice.
>

yes, i think this is a good idea. but then how can i modify LEA16r above to
eliminate "dword ptr" part?


thanks,
Jun
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