From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Timothy Miller <miller@techsource.com>
Cc: "Nakajima, Jun" <jun.nakajima@intel.com>,
richard.brunner@amd.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Intel vs AMD64
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 18:34:11 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040303173411.GC531@openzaurus.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <403E4681.20603@techsource.com>
Hi!
> >Yes, "implementation specific" is one of the differences between
> >IA-32e
> >and AMD64, i.e. that behavior is architecturally defined on AMD64,
> >but
> >on IA-32e (as I posted):
> > Near branch with 66H prefix:
> > As documented in PRM the behavior is implementation specific and
> >should
> > avoid using 66H prefix on near branches.
>
>
> In other words, Intel's implementation deviates from the architecture
> as defined by AMD. So it's not 100% compatible. I just want this
> point to be clear.
>
>
> If these sorts of branches are common enough (and I suspect they
> are), then this sort of deviation could have a notable code-size (and
They are not.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-04 14:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-02-26 5:32 Nakajima, Jun
2004-02-26 13:39 ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-02-26 14:35 ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-02-26 19:25 ` Timothy Miller
2004-02-26 19:46 ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-02-27 18:44 ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-02-26 19:18 ` Timothy Miller
2004-02-26 19:45 ` Scott Robert Ladd
2004-02-27 14:43 ` Timothy Miller
2004-03-03 17:34 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
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2004-02-26 20:17 ` Andi Kleen
2004-02-27 14:50 ` Timothy Miller
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2004-02-26 4:28 richard.brunner
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