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Re: [PATCH] x86: rep prefix handling adjustment
- From: "H. J. Lu" <hjl at lucon dot org>
- To: Jan Beulich <JBeulich at novell dot com>
- Cc: binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Fri, 6 May 2005 07:46:53 -0700
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: rep prefix handling adjustment
- References: <s27b6b0c.027@emea1-mh.id2.novell.com>
On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 02:03:18PM +0200, Jan Beulich wrote:
> Until now, gas looked just at the first instruction of a series of
> identically named ones to determine whether it is a string instruction and
> thus accepts the use of a rep prefix. Since that required particular
> ordering in the opcode table (without that being said to be so), this
> patch adjusts code to have more freedom in the table ordering. At once, it
> restricts the set of instructions to choose from to just the string ones
> when a rep prefix was specified. As a nice side effect, some diagnostics
> get replaced by more meaningful ones.
>
OK. Thanks.
H.J.