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Date:   Sun, 14 Oct 2018 20:47:35 +0200
From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To:     Uros Bizjak <ubizjak@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: Use assembly instruction mnemonics instead of .byte
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On Sun, Oct 14, 2018 at 08:35:10PM +0200, Uros Bizjak wrote:
> Recently the minimum required version of binutils was changed to 2.20,
> which supports popcnt instruction mnemonics. The patch removes
> all .byte #defines and uses real instruction mnemonics instead.

What is "real insertion mnemonics" ?

To me it looks like this patch replaces our defines with binutils'
defines and frankly, if it ain't broke, why fix it...

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Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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