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From: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] x86/hweight: Get rid of the special calling
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On Wed, May 04, 2016 at 12:33:24PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Most likely not.  It would be nice to have some more uniform solution to
> that.  I'm wondering if we could use the -Wa option to load some kind of
> macro package.

Lemme try out some old compilers first, I'm guessing 3.2 won't know
about popcnt...

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