From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Mosberger Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 23:01:51 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH] new ".serialize" gas directive Message-Id: <16592.53599.194282.79188@napali.hpl.hp.com> List-Id: References: <16537.51724.854691.934006@napali.hpl.hp.com> In-Reply-To: <16537.51724.854691.934006@napali.hpl.hp.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org >>>>> On 16 Jun 2004 15:42:40 -0700, Jim Wilson said: Jim> Tags can't be used for control flow, so that should never have Jim> been an issue. Just nit-picking: we do use tags for the Linux kernel exception-handling purposes nowadays. In other words: a fault will lead to a control-flow change which may then resume execution at a tag. --david