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Re: shifts and rotates by 1 on ix86

To: Alan Modra <alan at linuxcare dot com dot au>
Subject: Re: shifts and rotates by 1 on ix86
From: Richard Henderson <rth at cygnus dot com>
Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 11:56:01 -0700
Cc: Alexander Sokolov <robocop at netlink dot ru>, binutils <binutils at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
References: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10005101241210.12070-100000@ns.netlink.ru> <Pine.LNX.4.21.0005101948260.1262-100000@front.linuxcare.com.au>

On Wed, May 10, 2000 at 07:59:05PM +1000, Alan Modra wrote:
> That's not such a bad idea, particularly if the directive also enabled 
> warnings when someone tried to use an instruction not available on the
> chosen cpu.

Such things are a pain for kernels.  Particularly if you
havn't had to use them in the past.


r~

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