Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 15 Mar 1998 22:23:22 -0500 (EST) | From | "Richard B. Johnson" <> | Subject | Re: [patch] x86, small syscall entry speedup, 2.1.90 |
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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.
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