From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: Uros Bizjak <ubizjak@gmail.com>
Cc: x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: Use assembly instruction mnemonics instead of .byte streams in arch_hweight.h
Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2018 20:47:35 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181014184735.GC7667@zn.tnic> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181014183510.18908-1-ubizjak@gmail.com>
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...
--
Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
Good mailing practices for 400: avoid top-posting and trim the reply.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-10-14 18:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-10-14 18:35 Uros Bizjak
2018-10-14 18:47 ` Borislav Petkov [this message]
2018-10-14 19:15 ` Uros Bizjak
2018-10-14 20:02 ` Borislav Petkov
2018-10-14 20:14 ` Uros Bizjak
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