Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 14 Oct 2018 20:47:35 +0200 | From | Borislav Petkov <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] x86: Use assembly instruction mnemonics instead of .byte streams in arch_hweight.h |
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On Sun, Oct 14, 2018 at 08:35:10PM +0200, Uros Bizjak wrote: > Recently the minimum required version of binutils was changed to 2.20, > which supports popcnt instruction mnemonics. The patch removes > all .byte #defines and uses real instruction mnemonics instead.
What is "real insertion mnemonics" ?
To me it looks like this patch replaces our defines with binutils' defines and frankly, if it ain't broke, why fix it...
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