Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 14 Jul 2013 12:49:44 -0700 | Subject | Re: [LLVMdev] [PATCH] x86/asm: avoid mnemonics without type suffix | From | Linus Torvalds <> |
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On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 12:30 PM, Tim Northover <t.p.northover@gmail.com> wrote: > > I don't think you've actually tested that, have you? (x86-64)
Oh, you're right, for constants > 5 bits you have that other thing going on. I didn't think about the fact that the constant changed in the middle of the thread (it started out as 1).
We use the gcc constraint "I" (0-31) in the kernel for this reason.
Linus
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