Re: [Nasm-devel] [PATCH 6/7] AVX-512: Change the data type for instruction flags

[Cyrill G. <gor...@gm...>]

On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 02:50:23PM +0400, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
> > 
> > Please correct me if I am wrong since I do not think I fully understood
> > the whole code history of NASM.
> 
> Yup, sorry for warning, it were all zeros previously, but still I think what
> we need here is
> 
>  - fix this 64 bitfield to generic bitmap (I've it in my todo list, actually
>    for too long alredy :-)

I'll do this bullet probably on weekend

> 
>  - keep all IF_ flags you don't need at moment to zeros but change IF_ value
>    for those instructions which you need to distinguish in avx512 sake, nothing
>    else. Once generic bitmaps will be ready we simply update all IF_ flags
>    to have different bits set and this resolve all problems, no?