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Description of problem: Compilation of attached source code leads to operation on non-existing register. Therefore the assembler cannot produce the binary. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): $ gcc -v Using built-in specs. Target: x86_64-redhat-linux Configured with: ../configure --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --with-bugurl=http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla --enable-bootstrap --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --enable-checking=release --with-system-zlib --enable-__cxa_atexit --disable-libunwind-exceptions --enable-gnu-unique-object --enable-languages=c,c++,objc,obj-c++,java,fortran,ada --enable-java-awt=gtk --disable-dssi --with-java-home=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-gcj-1.5.0.0/jre --enable-libgcj-multifile --enable-java-maintainer-mode --with-ecj-jar=/usr/share/java/eclipse-ecj.jar --disable-libjava-multilib --with-ppl --with-cloog --with-tune=generic --with-arch_32=i686 --build=x86_64-redhat-linux Thread model: posix gcc version 4.4.6 20110731 (Red Hat 4.4.6-3) (GCC) How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Compile the attached source code using $ gcc -S -m32 -O test.c 2. Assemble the assembled code using $ gcc -c -m32 test.s 3. Actual results: $ gcc -c -m32 test.s test.c: Assembler messages: test.c:3: Error: bad register name `%sil' Expected results: Assembler succeeds, the assembler code should not contain register '%sil'. Additional info: The source code contains inline assembler: __asm__ ("movb %0,%%fs:%1"::"r" (val),"m" (*addr)); which is compiled into movb %sil,%fs:(%ecx,%edx) (note the %sil register, which does not exist on i386). It's the compiler which fills the actual registers into this instruction. In short, we set 32-bit register, and then we need to read lowest 8 bits of it. If the compiler would use one of %eax, %ebx, %ecx or %edx registers, everything would be fine. But it uses %esi, which does not have its 8-bit variant. The source code first does few loops and function calls - these are compiled into usage of all %ec* registers, so the compiler use %esi for inline assembler. Without these function calls it would use %eax. Note that the %sil register actually exist on x86_64, because all legacy registers very extended to cover also 8-bit variants.
Created attachment 549003 [details] The reproducer source code
The inline asm is just invalid. If you have on i?86 an 8 bit value you want to put into a register, you must use "q" constraint for it instead of "r", only that ensures it will be allocated in %al/%bl/%cl/%dl and no other registers.