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Re: [committed, PATCH] Remove Disp16|Disp32 from 64-bit direct branches
- From: "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich at suse dot com>
- To: "H.J. Lu" <hjl dot tools at gmail dot com>
- Cc: "Binutils" <binutils at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Tue, 12 May 2015 16:09:10 +0100
- Subject: Re: [committed, PATCH] Remove Disp16|Disp32 from 64-bit direct branches
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>>> On 12.05.15 at 17:03, <hjl.tools@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 7:59 AM, Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com> wrote:
>> Yes. But then what was the point of you ripping out Disp16?
>
> I removed it since it doesn't jump to the target. Can you verify
> that it does jump to "(nextip + disp16) & 0xffff, not jump to
> "(nextip + disp16)"?
Yes - see the gdb output I provided yesterday.
Jan