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From: hpa@zytor.com (H. Peter Anvin)
Subject: Re: out-of-line x86 "put_user()" implementation
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 22:15:04 +0000 (UTC)
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Followup to:  <20050209023346.GA13911@twiddle.net>
By author:    Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 06:27:08PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > That brings up another issue: if I don't care which registers a 64-bit 
> > value goes into, can I get the "low reg" and "high reg" names some way?
> 
> Nope.  We never needed one in the i386 backend itself, so we never
> added anything like that.
> 

I would really like to see that feature.  I've missed it more than a
few times.

	-hpa
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