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@@ -502,6 +502,7 @@ goto_ptr opcode, emitting this op is equivalent to emitting exit_tb(0).
* qemu_ld_i32/i64 t0, t1, flags, memidx
* qemu_st_i32/i64 t0, t1, flags, memidx
+* qemu_st8_i32 t0, t1, flags, memidx
Load data at the guest address t1 into t0, or store data in t0 at guest
address t1. The _i32/_i64 size applies to the size of the input/output
@@ -518,6 +519,10 @@ of the memory access.
For a 32-bit host, qemu_ld/st_i64 is guaranteed to only be used with a
64-bit memory access specified in flags.
+For i386, qemu_st8_i32 is exactly like qemu_st_i32, except the size of
+the memory operation is known to be 8-bit. This allows the backend to
+provide a different set of register constraints.
+
********* Host vector operations
All of the vector ops have two parameters, TCGOP_VECL & TCGOP_VECE.