[aarch64-port-dev ] Remove cmp(reg, imm) altogether?

Fri May 25 08:29:43 UTC 2018

On 05/25/2018 08:25 AM, Joshua Zhu wrote:
> How about below implementation?
> 	void cmp(Register Rd, char imm) 
> imm is changed into type "char", has only one byte.
> When engineers look into this function, they will wonder why imm has size limitation.
> Then comments are added here to emphasize immediate operand has 12 bits limitation.

I don't think there would be any warning, though: the conversion would
be performed silently.

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