[Mesa-dev] [PATCH 5/6] rtasm: add minimal x86-64 support and new instructions

Keith Whitwell keithw at vmware.com
Thu Aug 12 10:24:13 PDT 2010


On Thu, 2010-08-12 at 10:09 -0700, Luca Barbieri wrote:
> This commit adds minimal x86-64 support: only movs between registers
> are supported for r8-r15, and x64_rexw() must be used to ask for 64-bit
> operations.

Hey Luca -- I have to ask how far you're thinking of going with rtasm on
x86-64...  I can say from experience that while it's a nice utility for
generating very simple assembly (as in translate), as soon as you start
getting into anything more complex, llvm is by far the better choice...

Keith




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