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From: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/14] KVM: Kernel-based Virtual Machine (v4)
Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2006 10:26:22 -0800
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 > Either that or a bunch of ugly .byte macros.

After reading this thread, I have to say that this seems preferable to
relying on new-ish binutils.  Someday in the future we can fix it up
but I think too many people are still using old gas versions now.

You can hide the .byte crap in one place with #defines I think, so
it's not so bad.  We already do this for a few things in asm-i386 and
asm-x86_64 anyway.

 - R.