Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S936474AbWLFQmf (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Dec 2006 11:42:35 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S936473AbWLFQme (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Dec 2006 11:42:34 -0500 Received: from xenotime.net ([66.160.160.81]:32956 "HELO xenotime.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S936463AbWLFQme (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Dec 2006 11:42:34 -0500 Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2006 08:43:17 -0800 From: Randy Dunlap To: "H. J. Lu" Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org, GNU C Library , linux kernel Subject: Re: Change x86 prefix order Message-Id: <20061206084317.4c0ef28d.rdunlap@xenotime.net> In-Reply-To: <20061206070014.GA535@lucon.org> References: <20061206070014.GA535@lucon.org> Organization: YPO4 X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.9 (GTK+ 2.8.10; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 750 Lines: 26 On Tue, 5 Dec 2006 23:00:14 -0800 H. J. Lu wrote: > On x86, the order of prefix SEG_PREFIX, ADDR_PREFIX, DATA_PREFIX and > LOCKREP_PREFIX isn't fixed. Currently, gas generates > > LOCKREP_PREFIX ADDR_PREFIX DATA_PREFIX SEG_PREFIX > > I will check in a patch: > > http://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2006-12/msg00054.html > > tomorrow and change gas to generate > > SEG_PREFIX ADDR_PREFIX DATA_PREFIX LOCKREP_PREFIX Hi, Could you provide a "why" for this in addition to the "what", please? --- ~Randy - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/