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Re: PATCH: Remove suffix on fxsave

From: "H.J. Lu" <hjl dot tools at gmail dot com>
To: Jan Beulich <JBeulich at novell dot com>
Cc: binutils at sourceware dot org
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 06:31:58 -0800
Subject: Re: PATCH: Remove suffix on fxsave
References: <20091118200530.GA30449@lucon.org> <4B0517410200007800020C56@vpn.id2.novell.com>

On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 1:00 AM, Jan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com> wrote:
>>>> "H.J. Lu" <hongjiu.lu@intel.com> 18.11.09 21:05 >>>
>>fxsave doesn't have suffix. I checked in this patch.
>
> This is not true - 32- and 64-bit layout of the state saved differ, and
> hence a suffix should really be printed here (as well as for fxrstor) in
> AT&T mode.
>

There are usually no suffixes in AT&T unless there is a difference in
the same mode. For fxsave, REX.W makes a difference in 64bit
mode. We are considering adding something like fxsave64/fxrstor64.

-- 
H.J.

References:
- PATCH: Remove suffix on fxsave
  - From: H.J. Lu
- Re: PATCH: Remove suffix on fxsave
  - From: Jan Beulich

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