[Qemu-devel] understanding how arpl is translated

[Jun Koi]

Hi,

I am trying to understand how "arpl" insn (i386) is translated. In
translate.c we have:

.....
modrm = ldub_code(s->pc++);
reg = (modrm >> 3) & 7;
mod = (modrm >> 6) & 3;
rm = modrm & 7;
if (mod != 3) {
    gen_lea_modrm(s, modrm, &reg_addr, &offset_addr);
    gen_op_ld_T0_A0(ot + s->mem_index);      // (1)  ****
} else {
    gen_op_mov_TN_reg(ot, 0, rm);                   // (2)  ****
}
if (s->cc_op != CC_OP_DYNAMIC)
    gen_op_set_cc_op(s->cc_op);
gen_op_arpl();
s->cc_op = CC_OP_EFLAGS;
...

I can see that we decrypt 2 operands of arpl and then call
gen_op_arpl(). This function finally leads to execute op_arpl(), which
is defined as:

void OPPROTO op_arpl(void)
{
    if ((T0 & 3) < (T1 & 3)) {
        /* XXX: emulate bug or 0xff3f0000 oring as in bochs ? */
        T0 = (T0 & ~3) | (T1 & 3);
        T1 = CC_Z;
   } else {
        T1 = 0;
    }
    FORCE_RET();
}

Obviously op_arpl() relies on T0 and T1 have the value of the 1st and
2nd operands of the above "arpl" insn. However, I can only see that we
copy the 1st operand into T0 at (1) or (2) in the first snippet, but I
never see when we copy 2nd operand into T1. This confuses me, or I
missed something here?

Many thanks,
Jun