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
next prev parent 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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