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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Tim Northover <t.p.northover@gmail.com>,
	Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>,
	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>,
	Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	LLVMdev <llvmdev@cs.uiuc.edu>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [LLVMdev] [PATCH] x86/asm: avoid mnemonics without type suffix
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2013 12:00:18 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <51E446C2.6050508@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+55aFy=w6v9MqcVn1H6X7jqJq+QrEx7TfA6Kr+vC4SYJRjUyQ@mail.gmail.com>

On 07/15/2013 11:56 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> (NASM used to be *much* more pleasant to work with than gas. Maybe you
> should strive to make nasm DTRT wrt bt and constants, and maintain
> that lead?)
> 

Yes, that is in fact why I took over NASM development when Simon Tatham
gave up on it.  I'll look at adding this in the next version, it should
be easy enough.

	-hpa



  reply	other threads:[~2013-07-15 19:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-07-14 12:56 [PATCH] x86/asm: avoid mnemonics without type suffix Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-07-14 17:19 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-07-14 18:26   ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-07-14 18:34     ` Linus Torvalds
2013-07-14 18:49       ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-07-14 18:35   ` [LLVMdev] " Tim Northover
2013-07-14 19:09     ` Linus Torvalds
2013-07-14 19:30       ` Tim Northover
2013-07-14 19:41         ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2013-07-14 19:49         ` Linus Torvalds
2013-07-15 18:40           ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-07-15 18:56             ` Linus Torvalds
2013-07-15 19:00               ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2013-07-15 19:00               ` Linus Torvalds
2013-07-14 19:23   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2013-07-14 19:29     ` Linus Torvalds
2013-07-15 18:40     ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-07-14 19:23 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2013-07-14 21:14   ` Andi Kleen
2013-07-15 18:42     ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-07-15 18:47   ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-07-15 18:58     ` Linus Torvalds

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