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From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>, Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 4/7] Immediate Values - i386 Optimization
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 15:27:52 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46F050E8.5020206@goop.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46F04D53.6040903@zytor.com>

H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Allowing different registers should be doable, but if so, one would have
> to put 0: at the *end* of the instruction and use (0f)-4 instead, since
> the non-%eax forms are one byte longer.
>   

OK, that's already a problem since its using "=r" as the constraint.

> This also seems "safer", since an imm32 is always the last thing in the
> instruction.

Good idea.  If gas/gcc generates entirely the wrong addressing mode,
then we've got bigger problems.

    J

  reply	other threads:[~2007-09-18 22:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-18 21:07 [patch 0/7] Immediate Values for 2.6.23-rc6-mm1 Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-09-18 21:07 ` [patch 1/7] Immediate Values - Architecture Independent Code Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-09-18 21:07 ` [patch 2/7] Immediate Values - Kconfig menu in EMBEDDED Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-09-18 22:02   ` Randy Dunlap
2007-09-19 11:13     ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-09-18 21:07 ` [patch 3/7] Immediate Values - Move Kprobes i386 restore_interrupt to kdebug.h Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-09-18 21:07 ` [patch 4/7] Immediate Values - i386 Optimization Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-09-18 21:51   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-09-18 22:12     ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-09-18 22:27       ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge [this message]
2007-09-19 13:01         ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-09-19 16:03           ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-09-19 16:12           ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-09-19 17:30             ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-09-19 17:39               ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-09-19 18:31                 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-09-19 18:22               ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-10-20 16:47         ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-10-20 18:32           ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-10-22 15:40             ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-10-22 16:39               ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-10-22  9:53           ` Andi Kleen
2007-09-19 11:00       ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-09-18 22:14     ` Andi Kleen
2007-09-18 22:29       ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-09-18 22:33         ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-09-18 22:44         ` Andi Kleen
2007-09-19 11:08       ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-09-19 11:14         ` Andi Kleen
2007-09-19 10:59     ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-09-20 10:24   ` Denys Vlasenko
2007-09-21 13:31     ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-09-18 21:07 ` [patch 5/7] Immediate Values - Powerpc Optimization Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-09-18 21:07 ` [patch 6/7] Immediate Values - Documentation Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-09-18 21:07 ` [patch 7/7] Scheduler Profiling - Use Immediate Values Mathieu Desnoyers
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-09-17 18:42 [patch 0/7] " Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-09-17 18:42 ` [patch 4/7] Immediate Values - i386 Optimization Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-09-18  6:04   ` Borislav Petkov

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