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From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@oss.sgi.com>
To: "Kevin D. Kissell" <kevink@mips.com>
Cc: Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>, linux-mips@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] incorrect asm constraints for ll/sc constructs
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On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 12:14:43AM +0200, Kevin D. Kissell wrote:

> Fair enough.  It was an offhand remark.  But seriously, what does
> the "R" constraint mean here?  The only documentation I've got
> (http://linux.fh-heilbronn.de/doku/GNU/docs/gcc/gcc_163.html#SEC163)
> says that "Q" through "U" are reserved for use with EXTRA_CONSTRAINT
> in machine-dependent definitions of arbitrary operand types.  When
> and where does it get bound for MIPS gcc, and what is it supposed
> to mean?  If I compile this kind of fragment using a "m" constraint,
> it seems to do the right thing, at least on my archaic native compiler.

Correct, "R" is a machine dependent constraint.  At least when it's working
right it's supposed to expand into offset(reg) where offset is limited
to 16 bits.  That's implemented in gcc/config/gcc/mips/mips.h's
EXTRA_CONSTRAINT macro.  In case of an "R" constraint gcc calls the
simple_memory_operand() function which will return 1 if the memory operand
fits into a single instruction.

  Ralf