Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752970Ab3GNStr (ORCPT ); Sun, 14 Jul 2013 14:49:47 -0400 Received: from mail-ie0-f180.google.com ([209.85.223.180]:34521 "EHLO mail-ie0-f180.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752804Ab3GNStp (ORCPT ); Sun, 14 Jul 2013 14:49:45 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <1373806562-30422-1-git-send-email-artagnon@gmail.com> From: Ramkumar Ramachandra Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2013 00:19:05 +0530 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/asm: avoid mnemonics without type suffix To: Linus Torvalds Cc: LKML , Jeremy Fitzhardinge , Andi Kleen , Ingo Molnar , Thomas Gleixner , Eli Friedman , Jim Grosbach , Stephen Checkoway , LLVMdev Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1053 Lines: 21 Linus Torvalds wrote: > Ok. So your commit message and explanation was pure and utter tripe, > and the real reason you want this is that llvm-mc is broken. > > Please fix llvm-mc instead, ok? If the intent of llvm is to be > compatible with the gnu compiler tools, then it should do that. Plus > the gas behavior is clearly superior, so why not just improve the llvm > toolchain to match those improved semantics? Yep. I started the discussion on LLVMDev, and posted patches [1]. >From the discussions on the list, many of the devs are claiming that LLVM is "correct" and that linux.git needs to be patched. I'm not taking sides; I just want a solution to the problem. [1]: The archive is broken, but here are some pieces: http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/llvm-commits/Week-of-Mon-20130708/180968.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/