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authorChris Lattner <sabre@nondot.org>2009-10-10 21:30:55 +0000
committerChris Lattner <sabre@nondot.org>2009-10-10 21:30:55 +0000
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x86 uses 5 operands for most memory refs now.
git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@83733 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
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@@ -1812,24 +1812,27 @@ define fastcc i32 @tailcaller(i32 %in1, i32 %in2) {
<div class="doc_code">
<pre>
-Base + [1,2,4,8] * IndexReg + Disp32
+SegmentReg: Base + [1,2,4,8] * IndexReg + Disp32
</pre>
</div>
-<p>In order to represent this, LLVM tracks no less than 4 operands for each
+<p>In order to represent this, LLVM tracks no less than 5 operands for each
memory operand of this form. This means that the "load" form of
'<tt>mov</tt>' has the following <tt>MachineOperand</tt>s in this order:</p>
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<pre>
-Index: 0 | 1 2 3 4
-Meaning: DestReg, | BaseReg, Scale, IndexReg, Displacement
-OperandTy: VirtReg, | VirtReg, UnsImm, VirtReg, SignExtImm
+Index: 0 | 1 2 3 4 5
+Meaning: DestReg, | BaseReg, Scale, IndexReg, Displacement Segment
+OperandTy: VirtReg, | VirtReg, UnsImm, VirtReg, SignExtImm PhysReg
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</div>
<p>Stores, and all other instructions, treat the four memory operands in the
- same way and in the same order.</p>
+ same way and in the same order. If the segment register is unspecified
+ (regno = 0), then no segment override is generated. "Lea" operations do not
+ have a segment register specified, so they only have 4 operands for their
+ memory reference.</p>
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