[Dwarf-Discuss] DWARF piece questions

[Michael Eager]

On 01/27/2017 05:32 PM, Cary Coutant wrote:
> How about if we define this in terms of a left shift instead of a bit
> offset relative to the least-significant bit?
>
> "If the location is a register, the value is shifted left by offset
> bits within the register."

Extracting bits is conceptually clearer than a shift and less confusing.

I presume you mean that the value is right-shifted, not left-shifted.
Right-shifting aligns the desired bits at the LSB end.  I think.
And you need to specify that it is masked.  And you probably want to
specify sign extension, or zero fill, but I'm not sure which.  What happens
if the register is a FP reg?  What does it mean to right-shift a floating
point register?

Seems to be way more complicated to me.

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