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For integer types less than a machine register, we have to decide what the invariants are for the high bits of the register. We used to set the high bits to the correct extension (sign or zero, as determined by the type) of the low bits. This CL makes the compiler ignore the high bits of the register altogether (they are junk). On this plus side, this means ops that generate subword results don't have to worry about correctly extending them. On the minus side, ops that consume subword arguments have to deal with the input registers not being correctly extended. For x86, this tradeoff is probably worth it. Almost all opcodes have versions that use only the correct subword piece of their inputs. (The one big exception is array indexing.) Not many opcodes can correctly sign extend on output. For other architectures, the tradeoff is probably not so clear, as they don't have many subword-safe opcodes (e.g. 16-bit compare, ignoring the high 16/48 bits). Fortunately we can decide whether we do this per-architecture. For the machine-independent opcodes, we pretend that the "register" size is equal to the type width, so sign extension is immaterial. Opcodes that care about the signedness of the input (e.g. compare, right shift) have two different variants. Change-Id: I465484c5734545ee697afe83bc8bf4b53bd9df8d Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/12600 Reviewed-by: Josh Bleecher Snyder <josharian@gmail.com> |
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