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[gas] Unsigned arithmetic and %hi() operator

Orlando Arias orlandoarias@gmail.com
Fri Apr 1 18:43:00 GMT 2016 
Greetings,

Small correction:
> sethi %hi(0x40000000U + 0x40000000U), %fp	# does not assemble
> sethi %hi(0x40000000 + 0x40000000), %fp		# assembles

Both statements assemble in this case. Sorry for the confusion. The
larger statements fail to assemble. Thank you.

Cheers,
Orlando.

On 04/01/2016 02:31 PM, Orlando Arias wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> I have been dealing with this issue for a while now and I believe to
> have narrowed down the cause to an issue with the %hi() operator. I am
> working with the sparc-leon3-linux target in gas versions 2.26.20160125
> and 2.23.
> 
> In the following assembly statements, the numbers come from macro
> expansions by the C preprocessor. These statements fail to assemble with
> the error "Error: missing ')'
> 
> sethi %hi(((((0x40000000U + 0x40000000U) - 160)-(8192U-160))-32U)), %fp
> or %g0, %lo(((((0x40000000U +0x40000000U) - 160)-(8192U-160))-32U)), %fp
> 
> However, the following assembles just fine:
> 
> sethi %hi(((((0x40000000 + 0x40000000) - 160)-(8192-160))-32)), %fp
> or %g0, %lo(((((0x40000000 +0x40000000) - 160)-(8192-160))-32)), %fp
> 
> The statements are exactly the same, except that the numbers are now
> treated as signed.
> 
> I have further simplified this to:
> 
> sethi %hi(0x40000000U + 0x40000000U), %fp	# does not assemble
> sethi %hi(0x40000000 + 0x40000000), %fp		# assembles
> 
> The same error behaviour can be obtained with the 'set' pseudoinstruction.
> 
> I could leave the U out of the macro definitions, but then gcc complains
> of overflows in the macros (which is not a show stopper, but it is ugly,
> as these macros get used repeatedly throughout the codebase).
> 
> Have I overlooked something in the documentation/bugtracker or is this a
> parsing bug in gas?
> 
> Thank you for your time.
> 
> Cheers,
> Orlando.
> 

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