Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 17 Aug 2005 01:45:14 +0200 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 5/14] i386 / Use early clobber to eliminate rotate in desc |
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On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 09:54:11PM -0700, zach@vmware.com wrote: > Use an early clobber on addr to avoid the extra rorl instruction at the > end of _set_tssldt_desc.
I would suggest to just use C for this. I do this on x86-64 and I don't think there is any reason to use this hard to maintain code for it.
It's probably a left over from Linus first experiments with inline assembly, similar to the old string.h and by now so obsolete it doesn't even stink anymore.
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