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Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 00:25:26 +0200 (CEST)
From: Kai Germaschewski <kai@tp1.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
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To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
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Subject: Re: cpuid_eax damages registers (2.4.7pre7)
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On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> Can you verify with this alternate patch instead? Yours works ok on
> older gcc's, but the gcc team feels that clobbers must never cover
> inputs or outputs, so your patch really generates invalid asms.  Here's
> a alternate, can you verify that it works for you guys, and perhaps
> people can at the same time eye-ball it for any other issues they can
> think of?

Generated code looks good here. I checked the asm output for some 
instances of cpuid_e[acd]x() in setup.c, and generated asm looks right in 
all cases.

--Kai
 

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