[LLVMdev] [PATCH v2] X86: disambiguate unqualified btr, bts

[James Courtier-Dutton]

On Jul 17, 2013 7:41 AM, "Joerg Sonnenberger" <joerg at britannica.bec.de>
wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 11:54:21AM +0530, Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote:
> > Jim Grosbach wrote:
> > > No. The above rule is absolutely the wrong thing to do, as has been
> > > previously noted.
> >
> > I don't give a shit about whether you think it is "absolutely wrong"
> > or not; I did what hpa and the Intel manual outlined.  If you have
> > some _reason_ not to do that, bring it up.
>
> In case you have missed this, this is not LKML. Please keep your abusive
> language at home. Linus and hpa are no almighty authorities here and
> this is not the Linux kernel community.
>

Linus is an expert on the x86 instruction set, so his advice on what to do
with bts and btc should be taken seriously. So i thing that although Linus
is not an LLVM authority, he should be considered an x86 authority.

James.
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