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SubjectRe: [patch] x86, small syscall entry speedup, 2.1.90
On Mon, 16 Mar 1998, MOLNAR Ingo wrote:

>
> On Sun, 15 Mar 1998, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
>
> > Can you really load a segment register with a byte move? My Intel
> > documentation doesn't say it's possible. [...]
>
> no, the hack abused a GAS bug to generate a prefix-less instruction (to
> fix another GAS bug ;). Take a look at the objdump output, there it's the
> proper movw opcode. I'm glad GAS is fixed now, thus a much wider range of
> code gets improved.
>
> -- mingo
>
I thought so, but I didn't read all 264 messages before I "asked" the
rethorical question.

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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