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    SubjectRe: Semaphore assembly-code bug
    Linus Torvalds wrote:
    > Somebody should check what the Pentium M does. It might just notice that
    > "lea 4(%esp),%esp" is the same as "add 4 to esp", but it's entirely
    > possible that lea will confuse its stack engine logic and cause
    > stack-related address generation stalls..

    Now especially Intel tells everybody in their Pentium Optimization
    manuals to *use* lea whereever possible as this operation doesn't depend
    on the ALU and is processed in other parts of the CPU.

    Sample quote from said manual (P/N 248966-05):
    "Use the lea instruction and the full range of addressing modes to do
    address calculation"

    I would guess Intel would add caveats about such stalls in this manual
    if there would be any.
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