From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: virtualization@lists.osdl.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 12/21] i386 Deprecate descriptor asm
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 15:18:25 +0100
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On Tuesday 08 November 2005 05:31, Zachary Amsden wrote:
> Ancient inline assembler that manipulates descriptor tables is unreadable
> and has no type checking.  Doing this in C actually generates better code,
> saves code space, and improves readability.

Great idea. This was one of the first things I changed in the x86-64 port.
-Andi

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