Messages in this thread | | | From | Thomas Gleixner <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v3 11/11] x86: support i386 with Clang | Date | Thu, 23 Jul 2020 11:17:39 +0200 |
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Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> writes: > Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com> writes: > > I'm glad I looked myself at this. > >> We also don't want to swap the use of "=q" with "=r". For 64b, it >> doesn't matter. For 32b, it's possible that a 32b register without a 8b >> lower alias (i.e. ESI, EDI, EBP) is selected which the assembler will >> then reject. > > The above is really garbage. > > We don't want? It's simply not possible to do so, because ... > > 64b,32b,8b. For heavens sake is it too much asked to write a changelog > with understandable wording instead of ambiguous abbreviations? > > There is no maximum character limit for changelogs.
Gah. Hit send too fast.
>> With this, Clang can finally build an i386 defconfig.
With what? I can't find anything which explains the solution at the conceptual level. Sigh.
Thanks,
tglx
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