question on inline assembly and long long values

Gabriel Paubert paubert at iram.es
Thu Apr 7 07:18:43 EST 2005


On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 02:01:20PM -0600, Chris Friesen wrote:
> Kumar Gala wrote:
> >I'm having a similar need (for a different purpose), this post might be 
> >useful:
> >
> >http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2005-04/msg00283.html
> 
> Sweet!  My new code is now shorter *and* more efficient:
> 
> static inline unsigned long long getmsr()
> {
> 	unsigned long long val;
>         asm volatile( \
>                 "mfmsr  %L0               \n\t" \
>                 "rldicl %0,%L0,32,32       \n\t" \
>                 "rldicl %L0,%L0,0,32        \n\t" \
>                 : "=r" (val));
> 	return val;
> }
> 
> This results in
> 
> unsigned long long a = asdf3();
> unsigned long long b = asdf3();
> 
> being compiled to
> 
> 	mfmsr  6
> 	rldicl 5,6,32,32
> 	rldicl 6,6,0,32
> 	
> 	mfmsr  8
> 	rldicl 7,8,32,32
> 	rldicl 8,8,0,32

If you are running in 32 bit mode, you don't need
to clear the upper half of %L0. The architecture is 
designed so that pure 32 bit code runs unmodified despite
the fact that you can access the upper 32 bits using
64 bit instructions.

	Regards,
	Gabriel



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