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From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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Segher Boessenkool writes:

> Anyway, this asm code has bugs, as do both the current C version in the
> kernel, and the code I posted.  We need to do better :-)

The only bug I know of in the asm code is the behaviour when the count
is zero.  Do you know of any other?

Paul.