[fpc-devel] BMI2 instructions implemented

Florian Klämpfl florian at freepascal.org
Sun Oct 7 12:12:13 CEST 2018


Am 07.10.2018 um 02:08 schrieb J. Gareth Moreton:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> Sorry I've been away for a while - hope my infectious enthusiasm has still been contagious!
> 
> Anyhow, I've finally managed to implement the BMI2 instructions for i386 and x86-64 over at
> https://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=33549.  I'm not certain if everything is truly correct since my CPU doesn't
> actually support the instructions.  I did, however, compare the disassembly of a program written in Visual C++ with that
> of Free Pascal with the new instructions, and confirmed that they produced the same machine code.  The disassembler in
> Lazarus also now supports these instructions, so that acts as a second source of comparison too.

Thanks, applied (with some fixes though, operand order in x86ins.dat is Intel assembler style, except for the operands
in the change information though).



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