Re: Building current

[Mouse <mouse%Rodents-Montreal.ORG@localhost>]

>>>     ashq    -04(fp),$00000000ffffffff,-0c(fp)
>> [...comment saying "[...]  If so, we can use ashq"...]
> That code seems to be for loading constant values.  But to me it
> seems like the ashq instruction is for the whole expression
> "~(uint64_t)0 << i".

You are correct; it is.  I didn't quote enough for readers to be sure,
but reading the rest of the .s file makes it clear that, as in the
example posted upthread in full, the shifting involved in the ashq
corresponds to the "<< i".

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