[LLVMdev] Stange behavior in fp arithmetics on x86 (bug possibly)

[Stephen Checkoway]

On Oct 10, 2014, at 7:23 AM, Pasi Parviainen <pasi.parviainen at iki.fi> wrote:

> On 10.10.2014 9:48, Stephen Checkoway wrote:
>> 
>> But more to the point, even if there's a good reason to accept retl/retq as input, is there any reason to emit it ever?
>> 
> 
> Since in x86 you can mix 16-bit and 32-bit code, therefore you must be able to distinguish between 16-bit and 32-bit return. And from there comes the w and l suffix for the return instruction.

Makes total sense. I didn't think about using the operand size override. (I didn't even realize that was legal for ret.)

Thanks,

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Stephen Checkoway