Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 8 Dec 2016 21:20:13 +0100 | From | Borislav Petkov <> | Subject | Re: [RFC, PATCHv1 15/28] x86: detect 5-level paging support |
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On Thu, Dec 08, 2016 at 12:08:53PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Especially since that's some of the ugliest inline asm ever due to the > nasty BX handling.
Yeah, about that: why doesn't gcc handle that for us like it would handle a clobbered register? I mean, it *should* know that BX is live when building with -fPIC... The .ifnc thing looks really silly.
Hmmm.
-- Regards/Gruss, Boris.
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