<html lang="en"> <head> <title>RTL Declarations - GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) Internals</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html"> <meta name="description" content="GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) Internals"> <meta name="generator" content="makeinfo 4.13"> <link title="Top" rel="start" href="index.html#Top"> <link rel="up" href="RTL.html#RTL" title="RTL"> <link rel="prev" href="Conversions.html#Conversions" title="Conversions"> <link rel="next" href="Side-Effects.html#Side-Effects" title="Side Effects"> <link href="http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/" rel="generator-home" title="Texinfo Homepage"> <!-- Copyright (C) 1988-2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with the Invariant Sections being ``Funding Free Software'', the Front-Cover Texts being (a) (see below), and with the Back-Cover Texts being (b) (see below). A copy of the license is included in the section entitled ``GNU Free Documentation License''. (a) The FSF's Front-Cover Text is: A GNU Manual (b) The FSF's Back-Cover Text is: You have freedom to copy and modify this GNU Manual, like GNU software. Copies published by the Free Software Foundation raise funds for GNU development.--> <meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css"> <style type="text/css"><!-- pre.display { font-family:inherit } pre.format { font-family:inherit } pre.smalldisplay { font-family:inherit; font-size:smaller } pre.smallformat { font-family:inherit; font-size:smaller } pre.smallexample { font-size:smaller } pre.smalllisp { font-size:smaller } span.sc { font-variant:small-caps } span.roman { font-family:serif; font-weight:normal; } span.sansserif { font-family:sans-serif; font-weight:normal; } --></style> </head> <body> <div class="node"> <a name="RTL-Declarations"></a> <p> Next: <a rel="next" accesskey="n" href="Side-Effects.html#Side-Effects">Side Effects</a>, Previous: <a rel="previous" accesskey="p" href="Conversions.html#Conversions">Conversions</a>, Up: <a rel="up" accesskey="u" href="RTL.html#RTL">RTL</a> <hr> </div> <h3 class="section">13.14 Declarations</h3> <p><a name="index-RTL-declarations-3027"></a><a name="index-declarations_002c-RTL-3028"></a> Declaration expression codes do not represent arithmetic operations but rather state assertions about their operands. <a name="index-strict_005flow_005fpart-3029"></a> <a name="index-g_t_0040code_007bsubreg_007d_002c-in-_0040code_007bstrict_005flow_005fpart_007d-3030"></a> <dl><dt><code>(strict_low_part (subreg:</code><var>m</var><code> (reg:</code><var>n</var> <var>r</var><code>) 0))</code><dd>This expression code is used in only one context: as the destination operand of a <code>set</code> expression. In addition, the operand of this expression must be a non-paradoxical <code>subreg</code> expression. <p>The presence of <code>strict_low_part</code> says that the part of the register which is meaningful in mode <var>n</var>, but is not part of mode <var>m</var>, is not to be altered. Normally, an assignment to such a subreg is allowed to have undefined effects on the rest of the register when <var>m</var> is less than a word. </dl> </body></html>