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From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date:   Fri, 18 May 2018 11:25:32 -0700
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/6] x86: bug: prevent gcc distortions
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On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 10:24 AM Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com> wrote:

> Will it be ok just to use a global inline asm to set an =E2=80=9C.include=
=E2=80=9D
directive
> that gas would later process? (I can probably wrap it in a C macro so it
> won=E2=80=99t be too disgusting)

Maybe. I'd almost prefer it to be the automatic kind of thing that we
already do for C files using "-include".

                  Linus