Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
Andi seemed to trust gas stability and you answered:
"The comment was referring to x86-64, but I incorrectly remembered that
applying to "movq $imm,%reg" as opposed to loading from an absolute
address. gas actually has a special opcode (movabs) for the 64-bit
version of the latter variant, which is only available with %rax and its
subregisters.
Nevermind, in other words. It's still true, though, that the immediate
will always be the last thing in the instruction -- that's a fixture of
the instruction format."
So, in the end, is there a way to make x86_64 use a fixed-size opcode
for the 1, 2, 4 and 8 bytes load immediates or we will have to force the
use of a specific register ?
(and we can't take a pointer from the end of the instruction, because we
need to align the immediate value correctly)
For a 64-bit load, you'll always have a REX prefix. For 8-, 16- and
32-bit load, the length of the instruction will depend on the register
chosen, unless you constrain to either all legacy or all upper
registers, or you force gas to generate a prefix, but I don't think
there is a way to do that that will work with assemblers all the way
back to 2.12, which is at least what we officially support (I have no
idea if assemblers that far back actually *work*, mind you.)
-hpa
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