Re: toolchain/49273: 64-bit constant loads in as will be truncated to 32-bit.

[Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR toolchain/49273; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: toolchain-manager%netbsd.org@localhost, gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost,
	netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: toolchain/49273: 64-bit constant loads in as will be truncated to 32-bit.
Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2014 14:30:42 +0200

 On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 12:15:00PM +0000, ragge%ludd.ltu.se@localhost wrote:
 > movq of a small negative constant will be truncated to 32-bit.
 
 There was a lengthy discussion of this on the gcc lists, with (IIRC)
 a settlement to use long hex constants instead; gcc has a special
 VAX specific format identifier for movq constants now.
 
 Martin