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Message-ID: <51E446C2.6050508@zytor.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2013 12:00:18 -0700
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
CC: Tim Northover <t.p.northover@...il.com>,
Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@...il.com>,
Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>,
Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
LLVMdev <llvmdev@...uiuc.edu>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [LLVMdev] [PATCH] x86/asm: avoid mnemonics without type suffix
On 07/15/2013 11:56 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> (NASM used to be *much* more pleasant to work with than gas. Maybe you
> should strive to make nasm DTRT wrt bt and constants, and maintain
> that lead?)
>
Yes, that is in fact why I took over NASM development when Simon Tatham
gave up on it. I'll look at adding this in the next version, it should
be easy enough.
-hpa
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