From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754931AbbERUGf (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 May 2015 16:06:35 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:52080 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754365AbbERUGd (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 May 2015 16:06:33 -0400 Message-ID: <555A4628.4060802@zytor.com> Date: Mon, 18 May 2015 13:06:00 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "H.J. Lu" , Andy Lutomirski CC: Borislav Petkov , Jan Beulich , Binutils , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: Avoiding unnecessary jump relocations in gas? References: <554B6E0102000078000778D0@mail.emea.novell.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 05/18/2015 01:02 PM, H.J. Lu wrote: >> >> I wonder if it would make sense to have explicit mnemonics for the >> one-byte offset and four-byte offset jump variants. Sometimes users >> want a jump with a 32-bit offset for reasons that have nothing to do >> with link-time or load-time relocations. >> > > There is: > > jmp.d32 foo > How far back does that syntax work? -hpa