Re: Assembling span-dependent instructions

From	anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl)
Newsgroups	comp.compilers, comp.arch
Subject	Re: Assembling span-dependent instructions
Date	2022-07-28 05:56 +0000
Organization	Institut fuer Computersprachen, Technische Universitaet Wien
Message-ID	<22-07-053@comp.compilers> (permalink)
References	<22-07-049@comp.compilers> <22-07-052@comp.compilers>

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Kaz Kylheku <480-992-1380@kylheku.com> writes:
>On 2022-07-27, Anton Ertl <anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:
>> However, one can also construct cases where making the code larger can
>> reduce the minimum size of the immediate operand, e.g.:
>>
>> foo:
>>      movl foo+133-bar(%rdi),%eax
>> bar:
>
>That's weird; what is accessed this way, relative to the code,
>and does it occur in compiler output?

I designed this example based on the examples in the paper, not as
something occuring in practice.

The examples in the paper involved several span-dependent instructions
and looked unusual to me, but I convinced myself that something like
that could occur in practice, with data close to code addressed using
some pointer into the code (like %rip-relative on AMD64, or the global
pointer on various position-independent ABIs for other architectures).

- anton
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M. Anton Ertl
anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at
http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/anton/

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Assembling span-dependent instructions anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2022-07-27 16:32 +0000
  Re: Assembling span-dependent instructions Kaz Kylheku <480-992-1380@kylheku.com> - 2022-07-27 22:52 +0000
    Re: Assembling span-dependent instructions anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2022-07-28 05:56 +0000
    Re: Assembling span-dependent instructions antispam@math.uni.wroc.pl - 2022-07-28 12:15 +0000
      Re: Assembling span-dependent instructions gah4 <gah4@u.washington.edu> - 2022-07-29 14:22 -0700
      Re: Assembling span-dependent instructions Kaz Kylheku <480-992-1380@kylheku.com> - 2022-07-29 22:36 +0000
  RE: Assembling span-dependent instructions Christopher F Clark <christopher.f.clark@compiler-resources.com> - 2022-07-28 16:02 +0300
    RE: Assembling span-dependent instructions anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2022-07-30 09:28 +0000
      RE: Assembling span-dependent instructions Christopher F Clark <christopher.f.clark@compiler-resources.com> - 2022-07-31 02:28 +0300

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