cmd/asm: add 'insert program mask' instruction for s390x
This CL adds the 'insert program mask' (IPM) instruction to s390x. IPM stores the current program mask (which contains the condition code) into a general purpose register. This instruction will be useful when implementing intrinsics for the arithmetic functions in the math/bits package. We can also potentially use it to convert some condition codes into bool values. The condition code can be saved and restored using an instruction sequence such as: IPM R4 // save condition code to R4 ... TMLH R4, $0x3000 // restore condition code from R4 We can also use IPM to save the carry bit to a register using an instruction sequence such as: IPM R4 // save condition code to R4 RISBLGZ $31, $31, $3, R4, R4 // isolate carry bit in R4 Change-Id: I169d450b6ea1a7ff8c0286115ddc42618da8a2f4 Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/165997 Run-TryBot: Michael Munday <mike.munday@ibm.com> TryBot-Result: Gobot Gobot <gobot@golang.org> Reviewed-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@golang.org>
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