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Re: PATCH: Remove Intel PNI/VMX suffix check
- From: Alan Modra <amodra at bigpond dot net dot au>
- To: "H. J. Lu" <hjl at lucon dot org>
- Cc: Jan Beulich <JBeulich at novell dot com>, binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 11:02:10 +0930
- Subject: Re: PATCH: Remove Intel PNI/VMX suffix check
- References: <s2db73f9.027@lucius.provo.novell.com> <20050718164706.GA30008@lucon.org>
On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 09:47:06AM -0700, H. J. Lu wrote:
> The 'i' suffix check was added to PNI_Fixup in
>
> http://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2004-06/msg00421.html
>
> Alan, do you remember why it is needed? I am going to check in this
> patch to remove it unless there is a testcase to show the suffix check
> is needed.
We might have "sidtl" or "sidtw" in obuf, which leaves p pointing to 'i'
rather than the start of "sidt". Try disassembling with -Msuffix.
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Alan Modra
IBM OzLabs - Linux Technology Centre