Re: Operand sizes in mescc compiler

[W. J. van der Laan]

> You'll notice that these cases are preceded by something like
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>
> (size (if (= size reg-size) 0 size))
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> So 0 means register-size. The other sizes are byte counts, for if you
> need to move smaller units.

Ohh, that makes sense. I missed the reg-size assignment.

> You'll notice that it's implemented by <cpu>/as.scm
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>
> (define (i386:mem->r info)
>
> (let ((r (get-r info)))
>
> `((,(string-append "mov____(%" r "),%" r)))))
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> so this just means: default register size.

Right! Yes I mimicked that and it came out working, but thanks for explaining 
so I understand why :)

-W