Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754929AbbG1ADV (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Jul 2015 20:03:21 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:40809 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754515AbbG1ADU (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Jul 2015 20:03:20 -0400 User-Agent: K-9 Mail for Android In-Reply-To: References: <1438019319-19731-1-git-send-email-uros_bizjak1@t-2.net> <55B680D8.5070702@zytor.com> <55B696B2.3000702@kernel.org> <55B69CED.8050709@zytor.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Subject: Re: ASM flags in general From: "H. Peter Anvin" Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2015 17:03:08 -0700 To: Andy Lutomirski CC: Andy Lutomirski , Uros Bizjak , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , X86 ML , Uros Bizjak , Ingo Molnar Message-ID: <9F16C950-32F0-4DC0-9B33-CD1288529C9A@zytor.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1008 Lines: 24 There are certainly applications. That just isn't one of them. On July 27, 2015 4:58:29 PM PDT, Andy Lutomirski wrote: >On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 4:56 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> Sure... but now you have to wrap things in stac/clac. I'm not sure I >see the point since the code is already pretty much optimal. > >Ick. I forgot about that. > >It would benefit all the users who aren't using the _ex functions, >though. And, if there are enough of those, it just might be worth >trying to postprocess object files to collapse adjacent stac and clac >instances, or just to teach the alternatives code to nop them out if >they're redundant. > >--Andy -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -- 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/