Re: Intel P6 vs P7 system call performance

Ulrich Drepper
2002-12-17T18:42:23Z

Alan Cox wrote:

> Is there any reason you can't just keep the linker out of the entire
> mess by generating
>
> .byte whatever
> .dword 0xFFFF0000
>
> instead of call ?

There is no such instruction. Unless you know about some secret
undocumented opcode...

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