Re: PowerPC assembler help
On Sun, Jun 09, 2013 at 10:03:14PM +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Anyone know/understand PowerPC assembler?
>
> I have the instruction:
>
> lwz 30, .label - (1b)(31)
>
> >From reading the documentation I could find, I have figured out that
> it loads a 16 bit value into register 30. The rest has got me somewhat
> flumoxed. Clues?
I'm pretty sure that is loading a 32 bit value. I believe that 'h' is
for 16 bit and 'w' is 32 bit. I haven't seen that syntax for the source,
but my guess would be that it is an assembler directive of some sort
that will get translated into a memory reference of a register/offset,
but it seems like it would need to be PC-relative which that instruction
wouldn't support directly anyway.
Was this input for an assembler or output from a disassembler? If this
is from a disassembly of a dynamically relocatable object, it might
have gotten confused by an instruction being the target of a relocation.
Brad Boyer
flar@allandria.com
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