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Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2014 14:28:23 +0200
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2 0/6] uprobes/x86: fix the reprel jmp/call handling
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On 04/09/2014 09:44 PM, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> On 04/06, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> uprobes/x86: fix the reprel jmp/call handling

In x86 asm-speak, relative jumps and calls are called
simply "relative" (meaning that instructions contain
an offset relative to current instruction pointer).

I propose to use the "relative" term when you refer
to such branch instructions.
Not, say, "rip-relative" - that term is used in x86-speak
only for instruction-pointer-relative operands.

	MOV  0x123456(%RIP), %RCX

*This* is rip-relative offset.
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