[PATCH RFCv3 08/14] arm64: introduce aarch64_insn_gen_movewide()
David Laight
David.Laight at ACULAB.COM
Wed Jul 16 09:25:35 PDT 2014
From: Will Deacon
...
> > + BUG_ON(imm < 0 || imm > 65535);
>
> Do this check with masking instead?
The compiler will convert that to a single unsigned comparison.
...
> > + BUG_ON(shift != 0 && shift != 16 && shift != 32 &&
> > + shift != 48);
OTOH I don't think it will convert that to:
BUG_ON(shift & ~48);
David
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