[fpc-devel] x86_64 question

[J. Gareth Moreton]

Hi everyone,

I have a small question with assembler size optimisation that maybe one 
of you guys can give me a second opinion on:

If you are using the "test" instruction to test some of the lower bits 
of an instruction, e.g. TEST RCX, $2, is there a penalty with calling 
TEST CL, $2 instead? The instruction size is a lot smaller on account of 
the immediate only being 1 byte long instead of 4 bytes, and are 
mathematically equivalent.  I know you have to be careful with partial 
write penalties, but partial reads seem to be a bit more nebulous (the 
register is not modified with TEST).

Gareth aka. Kit


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